KIWI FOUND.
SITTING ON AN EGG.
DISCOVERY NEAR NAPIER.
HATCHING BEING WATCHED.
(By Telegraph—-Own Correspondent.)
NAPIER, this day.
A kiwi sitting on an egg was found by a small boy, the son of Mr. J. P. Turner, while playing in a paddock on his fathers property at Kaiwaka about 20 miles north of Napier. The bird was found in a burrow nest, about 18 inches long and running into the ground from the side of a small ridge. The nest itself is made of a few pieces of dry grass, and a few feathers.
The burrow is sufficiently large enough to admit the bird comfortably, and at the innermost end it increases to pive the bird plenty of free movement. It is located at the edge of a patch of bush. The bird, when found, was sitting facing away from the entrance to the hurrow. It has not been disturbed, but its hatching is being watched. The egg is estimate! to weigh about one pound!
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 9
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