General statement: Kiwis are native New zealand birds. They are so beautiful and playful and they are very special to our home land.
Structural adaptations : Kiwis have a small body with brown feathers and a big sensitive beak. They have big strong legs.
Behavioural adaptations: The plumage of a kiwi enables them to blend with the undergrowth in the forest, preventing predators from detecting them by sight.
Habitat: They don't need a new native forest, they are found in scrub and rough farmland, kiwis are from our homeland new zealand , you find them on floors of forests or in narrow logs.
Food: Kiwis eat small invertebrates , seeds, grubs and many varieties of worms. They also eat crayfish, fruit, eels and amphibians.
Native birds in a changing environment: The environment has changed over the past 1000 years
Humans introduced mammalian predators, so they are killing baby chicks so they might get extinct.
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