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Taranaki man born in a car sees kiwi he rescued born in similar fashion
Topic Started: Feb 11 2016, 11:44 PM (71 Views)
Kahu
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Taranaki man born in a car sees kiwi he rescued born in similar fashion

A man born in a car has seen a kiwi he rescued born the same way.

Taranaki Kiwi Trust volunteer Kevin Stokes picked up an egg from a nest in Uriti, north of New Plymouth, and headed out on a three and a half hour drive to Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua when he heard a crack.

Just after the Awakino pub he opened the makeshift incubation box, a chilly bin with a hot water bottle in it, to check on the egg and saw a kiwi chick sitting there.

"I just kept an eye on the chick, gave him a bit more room in the chilly bin to get out of the egg and by the time I reached Kiwi Encounter the chick was completely hatched, looking well, very alert and nicely fluffed up.

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Kevin Stokes took this kiwi egg to Rainbow Springs in Rotorua but it hatched on the way.
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FuzzyO
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Awwww! Do people routinely transport eggs to safety so that risk to the hatchling is minimised?
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Kahu
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No, the man who collected the egg from the nest was a conservation volunteer, who was looking after a monitored site. The Kiwi has a huge egg and the female bird leaves the nest to feed after a long gestation period ... it is the male who hatches it. When the monitor registered that the male had not returned to the nest it had to be retrieved and taken to the nearest hatchery. Kiwi are threatened by dogs, and stoats and argentine ants.
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The man will have a friend for life. "Daddy!"
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FuzzyO
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Trotsky's comment reminds me of the cute drawings of ducklings following Konrad Lorenz, or maybe it was Gerald Durrell. Long time ago, and my memory is clearly the pits!
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Kahu
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Not so silly Darcie some species imprint on the first live object they see. The takahe is a very rare and threatened bird and chicks have to be hand fed by a takahe puppet otherwise they imprint on the human handler.
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Takahe chicks being fed by glove puppets

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Another even more critically endangered bird is Sirocco the kakapo ...
The kākāpō who thinks he's human

Sirocco caught a respiratory illness at three weeks old. Treating it meant he had to be hand-raised and kept away from other kākāpō and as a result became imprinted on humans - he doesn't know he's a bird, he thinks he's one of us.

He's still not interested in other kākāpō; he doesn’t associate with them, and instead he booms in the presence of humans. He now lives on Maud Island in the Marlborough Sounds where he keeps watch on the rangers and any visiting children from local schools.

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Sirocco the kakapo

kaka = parrot; po = night. The largest species of parrot which is flightless and active at night.
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