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Brown Kiwi: Light Talks with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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New Zealand’s small and flightless North Island brown kiwi is a nocturnal bird that sleeps in burrows underground. They are endangered but beloved and protected. The Smithsonian’s National Zoo introduces three-year-old brown kiwi Pip in this Light Talks video, narrated by animal keeper Jordana Todd.

The video is one in a series that features some of the zoo’s 2,000 rare and extraordinary creatures with narration from zoo experts.

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Read more about ratites, “a diverse group of flightless and mostly large and long-legged birds” that includes the African ostrich, the Australian emu, three species of cassowary, two species of rhea, and five species of kiwi.


Related reading: A Day in the Life of a Bird House Keeper.

Next: A Kiwi chick struggles to hatch at Auckland Zoo.

Then watch videos about other flightless birds: Giant Cassowary, a modern-day dinosaur and The Kakapo: The world’s only flightless parrot is a very rare bird.

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