Saving the Kiwi: Protecting New Zealand's national bird | DW Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2024
- Kiwi birds, New Zealand's national symbol, are unique animals. But they are in danger of becoming extinct. Who is responsible? And what can be done to save them?
New Zealand was once home to around twelve million kiwi birds. Today, their population is less than 70,000. This drastic decline is mainly due to predators, such as rats and stoats, that hunt young kiwi chicks, or go after the flightless birds and their large eggs in their underground nests. One way to save the species is to take their eggs, and bring them to safety in incubators. But finding these eggs isn’t easy. Luckily, thousands of people have joined the massive conservation program. Among them is Diane Prince, who has become an expert at ‘egg lifting’ and says it would be "pretty bad” if New Zealanders, who call themselves ‘kiwis’ would let their national bird die out. DW Reporter Joel Dullroy joined her and other volunteers on their mission to save the kiwi.
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I live in NZ and this is the first time I've seen the hatching process 😮
Thank you to the people who work so hard the save the kiwi bird ,thank you for helping to save such a wondeful iconic bird .
In New Zealand, "Kiwi" are always the birds, and the fruits are always "Kiwifruit". So its weird for us when we go overseas and people call the fruits "kiwi"
That might be why we’re more likely to call them “kiwi fruit” here in Australia. Some people call them “kiwi” but I don’t hear it as often as I have in other countries.
And Kiwi are the people, too.
I find it weird when people call gasoline, a liquid, “gas”.
"Do you eat lots of kiwi?" makes me double take every time
We do though, however, the use cases a low since we don't often refer to our own group. When do, it's often formal so the slang is inappropriate. I doubt a Australian will refer to themselves as a ozzy unless they are marketing themselves to a global audience
Kiwi birds are my favourite animal and you know what
Thank you for all this care for the helpless kiwi birds you have made me so happy that one of the most funny,goofy,vulnerable,graceful animal I have ever seen
Thank you and you all have an amazing life
It's amazing how massive those eggs are
Right??? I was astounded when I saw them. It’s almost the size of the bird!
@@1000wastedwords i wonder if the kiwi bird is a descendant of a dinosaur their body structure reminds me so much of them
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@@Icanbacktrailers I wrote it two months ago I know better know
It's so inspiring to watch conservation in practice. Amazing work! Our crew got on camera the efforts to save another small species, called numbats, an Australian small, termite-eating marsupial. It's a lot of work, but seeing the results is extremely inspiring.
My favourite part of making this video was filming the three amazing women. So much of kiwi conservation work is done by women, and they are all such interesting and admirable people!
I appreciate the work you all did in this documentary. Well done. Thank you.
I live on Stewart island Nz’s 3rd island.
We have over 4000 on the Island and regularly have them in our yard. So cool for the kids to grow up with.
We have no stoats here thankfully.
Just rats and cats
I remember reading about how the kiwi was a flightless insectivorous bird that was endangered. I also read about the kakapo, which was also flightless, but not endangered.
Stewart Island is truly magical, I saw a kiwi there. Hope they can continue to thrive there.
@@John-qd5of The Kakapo is critically endangered, only 247 left :(
kiwis wife gonna be devastated when she gets home
God Bless the Kiwi conservation efforts . 👍👍
Je suis d'accord à 100%, sauvegardons les KiWi !
Je me souviens de !'éceureil rouge, ce qui habitait en Grande Bretagne avant le dix-neuvième siècle. Malheureusement, pendent le dix-neuvième siècle, on avait introduit l'éceureil gris, de l'Amérique du Nord. Les gris ont conquis L'Ecosse et presque toute L'Angleterre et le Pays de Galles. Alors, chaque fois que je regarde les éceureiles en Ecosse, ce sont les envahisseurs.
it was so cool to see the lady whistle and the egg moving in response🤩
60% vs 5% is incredible. Great work. Imagine the poor male Kiwi waking up and having to explain the missing eggs to the female after all she's been through! 😂
I thought so too. I absolutely get why they have to do this, and that saving the species is for now more important, but I wonder if that has consequences for the parents? But then other birds throw weak chicks out of their nests, so maybe the attachment isn't that high in most birds?
Thanks for saving the tiny elephant birds!
It was a wonderful documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) documentary channel. Documentary about Kiwi Bird rescues from annihilation in Newziland landscape..it's a humanity work beside returning ecosystem health to Newzland forestry..
Visit NZ if you can. It's an amazing place and the people are incredibly nice.
Kudos and congratulations to all involved in this great work and to all those around the globe who protect wildlife and so protect our natural environments. I admire and respect you all.
Is there a change in the amount of eggs laid when they keep disappearing or is it like a chicken situation?
I wish the Moa was still there.
Thank you KiWis for saving KiWi bird
My. First time seeing a kiwi egg on this channel. Its big 😊😊 amazing
Such a large egg for a relatively small bird.
4:13 the female kiwi gonna divorce the husband, after she got back with food then find the babies got kidnapped under broad day light
Fascinating! I do hope the kiwis will continue to survive.
You are exemples of humanity ❤❤❤
Kiwi bird is one of the first things a kid sees that bumps the imagination. A 4 year old sees a Kiwi in a book and thinks "HOLY SMOKES, WHAT THE HELL, THIS IS CRAZY" and I believe this bird can be one of the triggers for a development of a wild imagination in kinds, cause it's so different and special. Thank you beutiful people from this video and anyone working on saving the species
Cuteness overload ❤
I love nz and even named my dog name kiwi ❤❤ though I live in Canada
Thank you for saving them. Is it possible to make a tiny island without these predators for protection?
Thnx ❤
I wish I could team up to be a part of this great initiative🥺
Beautiful bird this is the
Symbol of Newseland
Save these birds
How is that egg that big for such a small bird
with regards to size difference of the mother and the child, you should look at a panda giving birth - you'll definitely be amazed!
t was a wonderful documentary shared by an excellent ( DW) documentary channel. Documentary about Kiwi Bird rescues from annihilation in Newziland landscape..it's a humanity work beside returning ecosystem health to Newzland forestry..
Fun Fact: 99.9% of Kiwis have never seen a kiwi bird. Just a kiwi fruit lol
bro theyre literally in the zoo wdm
@@theinter-galaticcaketruck1232 yeah, hiding in the box asleep lol.
I remember watching a documentary about Captain Cook's voyages. He was absolutely amazed by the natural history and culture of New Zealand. But then, he began to wonder about what damage future generations of colonists
would fo to that wildlife. and
How interesting. The Kiwi bird --- the symbol of one, on a shoe shining product --- was the first strange, foreign animal I had ever encountered, as a little first grade boy on some high mountain range in Southeast Asia, decades ago. SE Asia had then & still has, today, millions of exotic animals, insects, etc; but, even as a small boy (who'd seen a lot of animals), the Kiwi just didn't look like it belonged in my birth country or any other adjacent countries.
Jurrasic Park vibes 😮woah
Poor Kiwis! 😢 they are so beautiful
Parents must be traumatized to find the eggs gone
The chick's would die if the eggs aren't taken
6:53 whistle
So what happened to kiwi who lost their egg?
So the parents might never have a change to raise their chicks
Yes. It seems weird but if you listen to the first 20 seconds of the video, they say that almost 95% of Kiwi chick's (the babies) are killed in the wild. So we are actually helping the species as a whole. If we don't take the eggs, the parents won't get to raise them anyway and the species dies out.
Those bloody kiwis are so convinced those mythical birds are real.
Looks more like an ostrich egg. 😮 That's insane.
It's only a little smaller than an ostrich egg. In fact, while kiwi eggs are largest in proportion to adult body size among birds, ostriches, being the biggest bird species alive today, lays eggs that are smallest in proportion to their adult size.
There is so many introduced animals in New Zealand and no snakes or native mammals to keep them under control.Im from Australia and we have lots of introduced species causing havoc, but the Native new Zealand birds have no chance.
Damn Stoats.
Wow... at first I think that is dido bird 👀😮
Seems they don't have to deal with poachers as well.
I’m surprised that the National Bird isn’t a weka. They have many!!
cause they cause havouc
@@theinter-galaticcaketruck1232 How so?
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Being a Zoologist. Its our duty to save our species.
I love Animals and Am studying Animal sciences ( zoology ) in south asain country Pakistan.
- can i get scholarship in
New Zealand in research projects on animals?
Guide me if some Professor is reading this. Thanks ❤
helen driving around a dump truck 😳
By the way, Norway has a supermarket chain called KIWI 😮
Interesting. A Māori word for a Norwegian company. Wonder why?
5:03 Would be a pretty big *poached egg in a pan ahahah
Maybe stick to ostrich eggs- they're bigger anyway
The only thing that worries me about their survival is if that country ever gets any cats then its over for the Kiwi.
There are lots of feral cats in NZ - small ones like domestic cats but they're wild and they kill thousands of native birds and reptiles every day.
Some animals are going extinct without humans noticing them
There will be two very angry kiwi wives... Two very scared kiwi husbands...
Predators saving kiwi 😀
Predators plays important roles in the ecosystems. what happened when those kiwis have new bird flu like that transmit to human then who's going to control that when entire island is swarm of them.
Bro, ease off the drugs…
the kiwi.. a bird that has existed in Aotearoa for millions of years is going to introduce a new bird flu.. because we aren't letting them go extinct? Invasive predators are invasive meaning they aren't supposed to be in that ecosystem, it's an imbalance.. 10:58 and as stated kiwi's are actually important to said ecosystem
Pre-human, NZ had no natural predator that ate birds which is why many birds can't fly here. Everything that can kill them has been introduced by humans. They don't need to be here.
Also, birds that migrate from NZ fly only to the southern hemisphere countries e.g in the Pacific, south america and Australia. Bird flu has never occurred in NZ and due to our bio-defences, hopefully it never will.
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I loves kiwis
Pūteketeke for the win.
The Doe Doe 😊
Not quite. Before humans arrived, it was a bird paradise, thus there was no need to evolve from the forest bed.
Then we humans arrived, used their feathers and later interfered with nature introducing stoats, possums, rats etc that devastated all nz bird populations.
Its not the fault of the kiwi that its dying. That's on us.
The Dodo 🦤 perhaps evolved to a point where it couldn't anymore. Maybe it got to big and couldn't sustain itself?
Now if you really want to know what may be the next Dodo bird then that'll be the Kakapo - its gorgeous but dumb as a rock and evolution has left it behind 😂
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So kiwis are New Zealand's pandas.
No animal is harder to get to mate than pandas, by a long shot.
just to ask, what exactly kills them, as there is no predators native to new zealand. but DEFINETLY keep what you're doing because we need to conserve out national bird. greetings from windy welly!
Did you not watch the video?
somebody call john oliver
Like dinosaurs eggs
#savethekiwi
Why don't they take the parent kiwis?
If only Humans didn't introduce animals in the wild.
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I feel like this is doing more harm than good. If the burrow was so deep that even her hand couldn't reach, then it's obviously kind of working as how nature intended in deterring invaders. And whilst I understand that the bird is at risk of introduced predators, I feel as though this is mopping the puddle but not fixing the sink. The key is to amend the environment to suit them in the wild, deter predators more or to move them. To steal their eggs, you are taking them out of the wild and interfering with their role and will cause the routine that they've naturally evolved into to be out of place. Regardless, they're going to have to return to the wild and live there anyway, as they're wild animals. All you are doing is making them more confused and less used to the wild by taking them away to put them back. They have to either know their place, or have their environment change. Because at the moment, it just seems as though more 'cannon fodder' is being duplicated rather than focusing on the main problem at hand.
Theses are experts trying to save a endangered population. They know what they are doing. They are doing the best to save the population while minimising human contact.
In my 27 years of age Today 23 Feb 2024, I came to know that kiwi , like creature is exist, the social media is amezing , first i saw kiwi on Instagram reels and thought this would not be real, but i am surprised that it is a real creature, and now i came here on youtube to see all about kiwi, such a magnificent BIRD its so Beautiful and cute at the same time❤❤❤❤❤
I'm gonna get involved in nature to stop the problems I've created by getting involved in nature to begin with.
- Some Humans
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Hello ❤👋🇨🇭👋 new
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Don't forget feral cats
Glad they still existing not like the Dodo Bird.
There is away to fix australia lands. Bring those beavers from U.K and U.S to Australia. Give up Farmlands and Rivers for Beavers to build their Wetlands all around Australia. But that is not going to make profit now. But will make profit in 100 years. Again. Nothing can change the way those businesses are running. Nothing can change the way those farms are running. Nothing can change the way those human are consuming their foods and products from those farms. Nothing can stop those farmers from farming sheep on grass lands instead of inside a forest. Nothing can stop those cows farmers to farm their cows in forest instead of grasslands. Nothing can stop those big farmers from turning big patches of lands into a single weats farm. Nothing can stop those farmers from turning a giant rainforest into a corn farm. Just as sad as it sound. As bad as it looks. As depressed as it going to be for the future of "Greening" australia. They are turning australia into a farm. Not a rain-forest. To turn australia into a rain-forest? Those Leaders and farmers need to change a lot of their old ways of farming and doing businesses.😂 bring Beaver to australia? Some will even say it is going to ruin the Old australia. So all other desert on this planet. Opss... not NZ
Kind designer 78
No Durians?😂
Studied it in Kerala state syllabus South India
If they are raised without their parents, how are they going to develop their natural instincts?
By definition, "natural instincts" means those instincts which kick in automatically.
A woman who rescues orphaned squirrels has observed how, without their being taught, squirrels quickly begin stashing food - without ever having seen it fone or being taught.
Natural instincts.
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
Did you see how the egg moved around when it heard the calling of a Kiwi bird? That is a natural instinct and it's happening before the bird has hatched.
"introduced species killed our birds" the tone sounds like CCP
Every time I say anything about 8010 my comment is taken down
Great action !
We need to take actions and save our biodiversity... instead of colonizing Planet Mars...
And just like the New Zealanders, the Kiwi too is an endangered species.
NZ tries to save their national animal.
Aus goes to war with and eats it. (they got two national animals)
Neither one is endangered.
@@berniethekiwidragon4382 you don't get the joke? Your national animal is protected
they actually got birds that can't fly !!!! They call them jail birds 😂
National bird? I thought that was the Pūteketeke 😂
Using a short pants while saving wild birds will not gonna end well
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You rob their kids ?
a choice whether to save them by helping them to grow and then set free back into their environment or we leave them and the eggs are eaten by predators - stoats etc - and we let them go extinct - no choice really
It is always very convenient to leave out the very top invasive species to any environment, and blame everything else.
I mean, the stoats didn't swim there by themselves. I don't think this glossed over human impact at all. But people aren't eating kiwi eggs.
We lives this world they want save kiwi but palastianians people should not save , this humankind we live ,God knows everything
God help us, while we do appreciate you publicising this - and I say this as someone who's had something to do with reintroducing Kiwis - please learn how to pronounce Maori words before you post. It's not that hard. Aiya tea rower just grates.