What do kiwi do?

Answer 1

A kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand. It is a flightless, nocturnal bird. There are five species, two of which are endangered.

Kiwifruit is a fruit that originated in China (the Chinese gooseberry), but was carefully grown to be more tasty and fleshy in New Zealand, and renamed for promotional reasons. It is commonly called by the abbreviated name of kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia.

Answer 2

A kiwi is a small flightless bird endemic to New Zealand. It is a member of the ratite family. Ratites are found almost exclusively within the Southern Hemisphere. Ratites have wings but the bones in their chests do not have the capacity for flight muscles, which is what a bird needs to fly.

Kiwi are unusual birds in that their nostrils are right at the end of their long beaks. They have an acute sense of smell, and will dig their beaks into the ground to a depth that extends the entire length of the bill in order to find earthworms, insect larvae and other invertebrates. Kiwi also eat fallen fruit and seeds. They have been known to eat eels, freshwater crayfish, small lizards and even frogs.

There are five recognised species of kiwi (some sources say seven) and two are officially endangered.

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Answer 3

The Kiwi is a Flightless Birds that is a national icon in New Zealand. Because the birds are unique to New Zealand, the term "kiwi" is also often used to refer colloquially to the Pakeha (non-indigenous) people of New Zealand.

Answer 4

The kiwi is a small, flightless bird endemic to New Zealand. Being flightless, its rudimentary wings are so small as to be completely invisible, and it has no external tail. The female is larger than the male, and stands up to 50cm tall, depending on the species. Its long, thin bill averages from 9-20 cm in length, again depending on the species. The kiwi has sharp-clawed legs which are surprisingly widely spaced apart, meaning that it walks with an unusual, rolling gait.

There are several species of kiwi.

• The North Island Brown Kiwi has a thick covering of shaggy, hairy, brown-grey feathers.
• The Great Spotted Kiwi, also known as the Great Grey Kiwi, varies from grey to light brown in colour, but its feathers are covered with black spots. It is the largest of the kiwis.
• Other varieties include the Lesser Spotted Kiwi, Rowi, and Tokoeka, which have the same basic, round kiwi body with long, slender bill.

Answer 5

Kiwi are small flightless birds.

• They can hunt for food using their long, sensitive bill which is equipped, unusually, with nostrils at the very end.
• They can dig burrows for nesting, using their strong, sharp claws. They can hide from predators during the day as they are nocturnal.
• Females can lay eggs which are about 6 times the size of an egg from another bird of similar size and which, just prior to being laid, make up 15-20% of the kiwi's body weight, taking up so much room that the female is unable to eat because there is no room in her stomach.

Answer 6

Kiwis are small, flightless birds of New Zealand. They are related to the now-extinct Moa, a gigantic flightless bird also once found on New Zealand. Other relatives of the kiwi are the emu, cassowary, rhea and ostrich.

Kiwi have tiny, rudimentary wings that are so small they are completely hidden beneath their thick covering of shaggy feathers. They cannot fly because they are members of the group of flightless birds known as ratites. Ratites have wings but the bones in their chests do not have the capacity for flight muscles, which is what birds also need to fly.

Being birds, they have feathers, but the feathers are wispy and shaggy in appearance. Also being birds, they lay eggs in order to reproduce, but the eggs are six times larger than eggs from a bird of similar size. Just prior to the egg being laid, it takes up 15 - 20% of the bird's entire body weight.

Kiwi have unusually long bills. Their nostrils are at the end of their beak and they have an exceptional sense of smell. They use their long bill and their sense of smell to locate food up to the depth of their bill below the surface of the ground.

Kiwi are nocturnal birds, and they dig burrows in order to nest.

Answer 7

It is a flightless bird and national bird of New Zealand..

Answer 8

The Kiwi is a bird.

Answer 9

A Kiwi is a flightless bird.