Kiwi Bird Facts

Kiwi are flightless birds . Kiwi gets its name from its shrill cry 'kee-wi', 'kee-wi'. It has no tails and its small, almost non existent wings are hidden under its feathers. Several species of kiwi are found in New Zealand. 

There are 3 types of common, or brown kiwi and two types of spotted kiwi i.e. the great spotted or large grey and little spotted or little grey .

Kiwi have a highly developed sense of smell, unusual in a bird, and are the only birds with nostrils at the finish of their long beak. Kiwi eat small invertebrates, seeds, grubs, and plenty of varieties of worms. They also may eat fruit, small crayfish, eels and amphibians. Because their nostrils can be found at the finish of their long beaks, Kiwi can locate insects and worms underground without actually seeing or feeling them, due to their keen sense of smell. The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand indeed, the association is so strong that the term Kiwi is used, all over the world, as the colloquial demonym for New Zealanders. The New Zealand dollar is often referred to as "the kiwi dollar"