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Little spotted kiwi found on New Zealand's mainland for first time in 50 years (www.rnz.co.nz)

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[–] casmael@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

……….. looks pretty big to me eh bud

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Nah, the "generic" sized ones are reasonably larger - a chicken or larger (?). They get kinda big cos historically they had no predators - now they're fucked ever since we brought cats, dogs and possums etc with the colonists (and that mad fucker that thought gorse would be a good idea!)

In fairness, until this article came out, I only thought we had a single breed of kiwi, so I'm clearly no expert...