An endangered brown kiwi chick kicked her way out of her egg at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Va., between Saturday, July 29, and Sunday, July 30. Keepers had ...

For the first time, an egg laid by a female brown kiwi at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Va., hatched May 10. The chick is the first for parents Ngati Hine Rua ...

WASHINGTON — A newborn and endangered kiwi is under the care of the staff at the National Zoo’s research location in Virginia. For the first time ever, an egg laid by a female brown kiwi at the ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is welcoming a new resident: a brown kiwi. The little chick kicked her way out of her egg at the National Zoo’s Front Royal, Virginia, ...

The kiwi is New Zealand's most iconic bird. Round and fuzzy, the bird is flightless and has a long beak that makes it adorable or awkward, depending on who you ask. New Zealanders are even known as ...

TOKYO (AP) — Two types of New Zealand kiwi birds are a rare bright spot in a mostly grim assessment of global species at risk of extinction. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature ...

Claire Travers works at the Rainbow Springs Nature Park, in New Zealand, which runs a conservation program for endangered kiwi birds, according to the BBC. Travers and her team were recently given a ...

Conservation efforts in New Zealand to save the flightless kiwi bird have paid off, with two species -- the Northern brown and the rowi -- no longer at a high risk of extinction. Conservation efforts ...