Week 3 Day 3 Activity 1 - Bird of the Year!

The native bird that interests me is the Kiwi, because it is New Zealand's most native bird. It can be fluffy when its a baby. Kiwi habits and physical characteristics are so like a mammal the bird is sometimes referred to as an honorary mammal. 
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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