It has feathers like hair, nostrils at the end of its beak and an enormous egg.
Most kiwi are nocturnal birds, like many of New Zealand's native animals. Kiwis eat seeds, grubs, and worms. Kiwi don't need pristine native forest, and are found in scrub and rough farmland, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes and snowy tussocks, even mangroves.
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Hi Maddison,
ReplyDeleteIt's Leslie here reading your blog from my home in Canada where we don't have Kiwis, needless to say. I'm a member of the Summer Learning Journey team and I'm so glad that you've chosen to participate in this program this summer. Good for you!
The Kiwi birds are very fascinating to me because they're birds that don't fly. That's such an odd adaptation to have, isn't it? That's like there being a fish that doesn't swim or a mammal that can't move across land. Clearly New Zealand didn't have any natural predators for Kiwi before European contact. That means that the predators that are eating the Kiwi eggs and young were brought here initially by people from other countries.
I'm reading the sentences you've written about the Kiwi, Maddison, and I'm wondering whether or not these are in your own words? They sound a little bit like they're coming from a textbook or website. Is that so? If so, I'm going to encourage you to always re-write information that you find for a project in your own words. If we use someone else's sentences then we're committing something called plagiarism, and that's a problem. I think you might have found these sentences on the Kiwi Facts & Characteristics page of 'Kiwis for Kiwi' and so they should be credited for having created this material. You can't use someone else's work as if it were your own.
I think your choice of the Kiwi bird is an super one - so important to your country.
I hope you'll try this activity again and describe the Kiwi in your own words.
Keep up your hard work!!
Cheers,
Leslie