Kiwi facts: New Zealand's flightless birds | Animal Fact Files
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- Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. They are at risk of extinction, but current conservation efforts are helping to stabilize their populations. Kiwi are about the size of a chicken, but lay egg that make up 20% of their body mass! These little birds have strong feet they'll use to fight off intruders, including people! Kiwi chicks hatch fully developed, so kiwi parents don't have to feed them. These birds have become a national symbol of New Zealand.
Scientific Name: Genus - Apteryx
Range: New Zealand
Size: average - 20 inches (50.8cm) long; 6.5lb (3kg) in weight
Diet: invertebrates like earthworms, crayfish, snails, millipedes, etc; also berries
Lifespan: 50+ years (though average is much shorter due to predation)
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They are one of my favorite birds
their also mine
Kiwi:❤❤❤
Mammalian traits in an already bizarre bird is very interesting. Evolution never ceases to amaze.
Aw so sad they are endangered. They look extremely cute :0
Gee whiz! Can take up to three days to hatch! That's crazy. Introduced predators are a bit tricky, I am researching the little blue penguins (who also live in New Zealand) and they too are suffering from introduced predators. Thanks for another great video guys! Loved the cat cameo too 💚 Shelby
Good luck with your penguin episode! That sounds like fun. 😊😊
I LOVE kiwi birds they are my most favorite bird and animal and I love them so much, it's so sad they are endangered tho. I hope New Zealand will do anything to save the kiwi birds. Tysm for the video very entertaining!
Somewhere in New Zealand there is a town where it's illegal to have a pet cat unless it's registered and neutered or spayed, and no new cat is allowed to enter the town, in order to protect the kiwi!
Didn’t know there were 5 species! Thanks again for an informative and entertaining video! 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed and learned something new! 😊
Kiwi, Haast Eagle, Moa. Hold up, so New Zealand is a chain of islands inhabited by dinosaurs? _"They spared no expense!"_
I am a Kiwi and I love Kiwis ♥️🇳🇿
Thanks for watching!
The cat popping up at the whiskers portion was the cutest
Chester likes to make frequent appearances
U explained very well thanks.
So glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Ya gotta love the weird ones! Especially the cute weird ones.
Thanks!
These birds are so cute!🤩 Great video and keep up the awesome work!😃
Thanks so much 😊
Excellent video and obviously well researched. Let's hope the numbers grow with conservation and eradication of predators who should not have been in NZ and have decimated Kiwi Eggs. If young Kiwi given a chance will grow to see off the predators and give them a good pecking and thumping with their powerful feet. Go Kiwis!
Go Kiwis!! Let's see them return!!
@@AnimalFactFiles can you make episode coyote
I like the shoe polish they make.
Love these little guys...
Great video. All good facts
Thanks so much! 😊
Yw. thank u..Liked when u asked. Did u learn something new. Hit that like button and so I did. Lol
I love 💕 kiwis and my country new Zealand 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🥝🥝🥝
After humans arrived, Kiwis survived better than a lot of other flightless birds in New Zealand. Flightless birds seem to generally have a disadvantage when competing with ground mammals. It seems that flight is the number one survival advantage birds can have.
Amazing video it taught my students so much!
Great to hear it!
Imagine Lay Those Kind Of Eggs... Ouch!
Poor mama kiwis!
how bizarre, how bizarre...
WOW those are some Big eggs
They're like tiny dinosaurs!
Many would argue they *are* tiny dinosaurs. 😊😊
@@AnimalFactFiles Well, they are descendants of dinosaurs! Epic birbs
+hamsacc Kiwi, Haast Eagle, Moa. Wait, so New Zealand is a chain of islands inhabited by dinosaurs? _"They spared no expense!"_ 😉
This is so cute awwwww
Completely agreed!
They're so cute!! 😍
Completely agreed 🥰
Nice!!!
Thanks for watching!
So cute
Wow so interesting
Thanks for watching!
There awesome!!!
Completely agreed!!
Thanks for watching
Is a kiwi just a tiny velociraptor?
To be fair, velociraptors were themselves much smaller than their media presentation, but absolutely yes!
Since when do they exist?
I love kiwi birds, and I would love to try and support the foundations devoted to protecting them and helping them thrive! :D
That sounds like an excellent plan!
Can you get kiwi sounds?
Wow
Beautiful birds...
Their eggs are huge...comparatively...
They have been surviving a long time without human help ...
Some problems are man-made...I'm not sure if this one is...
They didn't happen by accident,
From the digestive system to the reproductive system, just to name two...it can't be builded by chance...
"Think" for yourself...don't let someone else do it for you...
Can you do a fact file on the American bullfrog
Awesome request! We'll get it on our list! Thanks for watching. 😊
Kiwi :D
They Are Cute :D
Next time do the Takahe.
Awesome suggestion! Thanks!
Thank u I learn a lot at shcool
Glad to hear that! 🥰
That's so much pain
It's definitely not something I would want to experience 😩
1:12 It's a theropod; what other kind of legs was it going to have?:p
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda
Cool Animal: Exists
Humans: *b* *y* *e*
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Aww, poor kiwis. Very cool, and adorable creatures. Unlike humans. 😞
Humans better
@@fathergascoigne2450 really.
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Some.
Really 🤡🤡🤡
@The Awakening my dog
@The Awakening stepped on 1 2 times
So basically, kiwis are birds that aren't birds
i like kiwi birds
Kiwis
It’s a vero butiful bird (surry for engllish but mi italian
They really are beautiful!
Their eggs are 20% of their size...... That'd be like the average woman giving birth to a 35lb baby...... With the same equipment...... I'd hate to think about how many mommy kiwi's die from complications after an egg literally rearranges their organs
New Zealand New Zealand
Those are nothing like the kiwis in America.
Anyone after BB Ultimate Julie 😂
No offence, it's a good video. But: It's not a weird bird. We were killing everything similiar, ergo: We are the weirdos on this planet.
I do not disagree that we are weirdos 😆🤪😅
kiwi like a fruit.
They taste the same to me
Um no
First
Yet another reason to hate cats
I want one soo bad as a pet but no I wish the kiwi population was replaced with the crow population
Start hunting the invasive species and dogs and cats should not be roaming.