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Okarito Brown Kiwi - BirdForum Opus

Apteryx rowi

Identification

Length: 50 cm

  • Long-billed
  • Short-legged
  • Tailless
  • Wingless
  • Dark greyish-brown
  • Streaked with reddish-brown and black
  • Greyer on head
  • Bill whitish to pinkish
  • Legs pale brownish

Distribution

Endemic to the Okarito Forest on the west coast of South Island, New Zealand.
Population estimated at about 3000 birds.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It has long been considered conspecific with Southern Brown Kiwi and North Island Brown Kiwi.

Habitat

Forests

Behaviour

A mainly nocturnal species.

Diet

Worms and insect larvae, fallen fruit.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
  2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and J Sargatal, eds. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334108

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