The Strangest Flightless Bird Under Threat In New Zealand's Wilderness Kiwi Documentary

The Kiwi bird is one of the world's strangest birds. It doesn't fly, lives in dark burrows and has a very long thin beak. The flightless bird is found on New Zealand's isolated islands but how did such a bird find itself in the middle of the ocean? Looking at their distant relatives from the cassowary to the moa, provides surprising insight into the kiwi's own history. With the species under severe threat, a group of biologists have a plan to rescue Kiwi eggs and raise them, before releasing them back to the wild once they're strong enough to fend for themselves

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