Brown Kiwi Writing

WALT: Do a pearsuasive writing piece about a New Zealand native bird






Did you know the brown kiwi is native to New Zealand? If not, let me tell you about the extraordinary brown kiwi. Hold on to your hats, this is going to be the ride of your lifetime.





Firstly, let me tell you about their population. In the year 2008 there were about 25,000 brown kiwi, now there is about 18,000 brown kiwi in 2018. Their population is declining around 3% per year. Even though the brown kiwi is decreasing by 750 per year people are trying to help.





Secondly,I'm going to tell you the brown kiwis habitat. They tend to live in subalpine areas in New Zealand and they also live on protected islands of the coast of New Zealand such as Aroha Island, in Northland. They do not like being in the open that's why there often found in the bush. Wherever the brown kiwi goes, it needs shelter.





Finally, I'm going to tell you about how the brown kiwi look and their behaviours. These flightless birds act more like mammals than birds because they have gotten used to being isolated and the brown kiwi can not fly so it’s more vulnerable to predators such as stoats, possums and ferrets. They are nocturnal which means that they sleep through the day and stay up at night. The brown kiwis eyes are small so they can’t see well so there smell makes up for their loss in eyesight, there nostrils are at the end of there beak so when they dig for small grubs they smell. Their feathers are fur-like and there beak is long but did you know that birds beaks are measured from their nostrils and the kiwis nostrils are at the front of their beak that's why they have the smallest beak of any bird. After a while the brown


beak grows bigger. There wings are so small they can’t fly because there bodys are so big and fat (don’t judge them its not there fault). Can the guess what colour the brown kiwi is? If you said brown you’re correct.





Conclusion
I hope you have learnt a lot about the brown kiwis habitat, appearance and population, I think that the brown kiwi is very important to New Zealand. What do you think?