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What eats kiwi birds?

Updated: 10/8/2023
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The kiwi's predators include introduced animals such as ferrets, weasels, stoats, dogs, and cats. Dogs tend to kill but not eat the kiwi. Some animals such as weasels and rats are thought to eat the kiwi eggs. Ninety-five percent of the chicks are eaten before they reach breeding age.

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Introduced animals such as dogs, cats, stoats and ferrets eat or just kill the kiwi.

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The main predators of the kiwi are introduced species such as dogs, cats, stoats and ferrets

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stoats possums wealsels ferrets

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