DSC_7275 Northland brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli). Todd Hamilton, Project Manager for the Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum, replaces a transmitter battery on an urban kiwi living in scrub beside the Whangarei Harbour *
IMG_1230 Northland brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) Todd Hamilton, Project Manager for the Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum, talks with community members of the Tutukaka Landcare Coalition, in the rain, shortly before releasing a new kiwi into the bush behind Ngungaru *
IMG_0659 North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) Dr Isobel Castro and David are two members of a Massey University kiwi research team. Here they radio track kiwi through forest habitat on Ponui Island. Brown kiwi introduced onto this island have a mixed ancestry of both 'Northern' and 'Western' provenance *