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this is so random but I’m losing it because I’m somebody’s producer tag now
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"Two wild kiwi chicks were born near Wellington, New Zealand, about a year after a reintroduction program began in the city, the Capital Kiwi Project announced last week. The fluffy, brown babies are the first to be born near the country’s capital in at least 150 years.
“This is very special for the team, which has been working hard for the last few years,” project founder Paul Ward tells the Agence France-Presse. The chicks are a “massive milestone for our goal of building a wild population of kiwi on Wellington’s back doorstep.”
These flightless, chicken-sized birds were once abundant across New Zealand, with the nation’s five species numbering an estimated 12 million individuals in total. But nonnative predators and habitat loss caused their populations to plummet. Today, approximately 68,000 kiwis remain....
Conservation and reintroduction programs, including the Capital Kiwi Project, have been working to restore a large-scale wild kiwi population for years. In 2022, the organization released 11 kiwis into the wild in Makara, a suburb about seven miles west of Wellington. Between February and May of 2023, another 52 birds were released, and 200 more are slated to be released over the next five years, reports Eva Corlett for the Guardian.
Along with reintroduction efforts, the project aimed to reduce threats from European stoats, also known as ermines. The mammals were brought to New Zealand in the 19th century in an attempt to eradicate another introduced creature: rabbits. But these weasel-like stoats are voracious predators and kill many of New Zealand’s native species, including kiwi chicks. Only about 5 percent of kiwi chicks survive to reach breeding age in areas where predators are not controlled, largely thanks to stoats. In areas under management, however, 50 to 60 percent survive. Knowing this, conservationists worked with 100 landowners across the bird’s 60,000-acre habitat to install 4,600 stoat traps.
Of the 63 adult kiwis now roaming the hilly farmlands of Makara, only about a quarter are being monitored—meaning more chicks will likely hatch in the near future. Conservationists will continue monitoring the two new chicks, though Ward tells the Guardian they still have a long way to go before they’re fully grown...
Over the years, the long-beaked birds have become a national symbol of New Zealand, with people who hail from the country often referred to as kiwis. The animals also hold special importance to the Māori people of New Zealand, who have cultural, spiritual and historic associations with the birds. Even the New Zealand dollar is sometimes referred to as the kiwi, and the bird is featured on the country’s dollar coin."
-via Smithsonian Magazine, December 6, 2023
#aotearoa#new zealand#kiwi#kiwi bird#endangered species#birds#ornithology#conservation#invasive species#good news#hope
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Here’s a good post from the National Kiwi Hatchery - yes, kiwi do bark. They make quite a wide variety of sounds including mating calls, grunting and hissing.
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Stewart Island Southern Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis lawryi), family Apterygidae, order Apterygiformes, is from Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand
ENDANGERED.
(Only 20,000 individuals remain in the wild)
AKA Stewart Island Tokoeka
Flightless bird.
Unlike other kiwis, they are actually more diurnal (other kiwis are mainly nocturnal).
This kiwi subspecies often feeds on the beach, which is a rare activity for most other kiwis.
photographs by Michael Beckmann & Glen Fergus
#kiwi#apteryx#apterigidae#apterigiformes#bird#ornithology#flightless bird#animals#nature#new zealand
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come on down to lawyer valley!
extra ideas:
edgeworth is still phoenix’s childhood friend except he turns into a capitalist instead of a prosecutor
for his 10 heart event (given that phoenix drove joja out) he just shows up in your house and you become housemates
gumshoe is the only law enforcement in town
franziska only comes into town after you either drive von karma out or buy his company membership but because you’re phoenix wright the latter is not happening
godot arrives all pissed because he woke up from a lawyer induced coma and mia is dead but then he actually really enjoys the town. he is won over by home-grown coffee beans
iris is the wizard’s assistant on the supernatural ghosts front
larry follows you here because there’s no way he’s leaving his bestie
phoenix gets letters from his parents and maya gets letters from pearl (who moves over once her mom is convicted of murder) (don’t worry about it)
big top circus is a yearly event in pelican town. you can buy max's hat there
sequel post
#ace attorney#i foresaked my yearly new year's art for this LMFAO#phoenix wright#maya fey#mia fey#manfred von karma#miles edgeworth#kiwi’s scribbles#crossover content: brought to you by kiwinator#lawyer valley
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tell me about kiwis (the fruit)
They are the only flightless fruit native to Austria.
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okay so since exams are over i've been learning how to use my apple pencil - here is my first attempt at pedge! digital artists on tumblr please know i commend you and bow down to you because this shit is fucking HARD. i love you please have all my kisses and respect
#kiwi's art#an attempt#trying new things!!#javier peña#i will probably delete this later when i decide i hate it
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Brown Kiwi Mating Spectacle | Wild New Zealand | BBC Earth
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F4U-ID, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
It survived the war only to be melted down for scrap in 1948
#aircraft#airplane#ww2#wwii#aviation#dronescapes#corsair#aviation photography#colorized#colorisation#f4u corsair#aviation history#warbird#kiwi#new zealand
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Kiwi Griffin~
Yes, you'll still be arrested if you grab it.
And be laughed at by the internet if you film yourself doing so, even if you are 'one with nature,' doesn't mean it has to like you!
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I went to the National Kiwi Hatchery in Rotorua, Aotearoa yesterday, and I can't recommend it enough if you can go during the hatching season. We got to watch little baby kiwi, Blinky Bill, get their daily weigh in, I felt blessed (Kiwis are nocturnal and to get to see them up close is a privilege). The photo above is not Blinky Bill but another kiwi who went through the program, who was unable to walk comfortably due to a foot deformity, but they made them little orthopedic bird shoes, and they worked.
Edit: if you want to donate to the National Kiwi Hatchery click here. One of the more expensive donations allows you to name a kiwi, if you want to name one after your blorbo.
#birds#kiwis#kiwi bird#north island brown kiwi#conservation#environmentalism#native birds of Aotearoa#new zealand
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been too long since i've drawn them. the friends of all time!!
#wandersong#miriam wandersong#bard wandersong#kiwi wandersong#i miss them.. gonna replay wandersong soon#first fanart on the new laptop also! of course it had to be wandersong.
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To start the week off right - here’s some partially leucistic kiwi from the National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa!
#white feathers/patches are quite common in birds sourced from Tarnaki - fun fact!#little sweet babies#birdblr#kiwi#aotearoa#New Zealand#ornithology#leucism
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This is my impression of a New Yorker.
Hey I'm walkin' here!- oh shit is that Spider-Man?? And what are those things that just went into the sewer?- Oh and that's iron man. Ah fuck a shuriken just got thrown at me. oh hey it looks like it has some kind of pizza with five slices on it- That manhole is glowing. Oh and look that's captain america
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Silly guyz
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