Tuesday, August 4, 2026

A Different Kind of Kiwi


 It's always fun to look at the decorations and collections of people.

The wooden sculpture-of-sorts in today's post caught my eye. 

A very intelligent almost 11-year-old told me it looked like a bird similar to the kiwi, of New Zealand.

What?  The fruit, kiwi, is known to me.  The bird?  Not so much.

A quick check with the amazing Internet know-everything, I learned that the kiwi is a bird from New Zealand.

It cannot fly and is completely noctural.

It's about the size of a chicken, according to some data, and lays very large eggs.

Kiwi birds also have nostrils at the tip of their very long bills.  They find their prey by sniffing!

There is a lot of information about kiwi birds. 

It's good to learn something new every day, including that a kiwi can be more than a fruit!



1 comment:

diane stetson said...

I've definitely heard of Kiwi birds from New Zealand. They also have kookaburra birds there. There are songs about them .My son saw them both when he worked there for a few months.

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