DSC_7352 Northland brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) chick release. Todd Hamilton, Project Manager for Backyard Kiwi (at rear), and Ben Barr, ranger for Limestone Island, carry the latest kiwi chick onto the refuge. The island, now a predator free sanctuary, once produced cement for the Golden Bay cement company *
11001-01521 North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) recently hatched chick beneath parent *
DSC_1014 North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) close-up detail of feathers *