Kiwi Workshop

The day started off with someone coming in to teach us about the kiwi. We learnt about its habitat and its eggs, they were massive, almost 3x the size of a normal hen egg! Then there were the predators. The lady doing the talk brought in a stuffed weasel, stoat and ferratt. We found out that the stoat is the smallest, the weasel is the 2nd largest and the ferratt the biggest. After that Miss Bain looked up some kiwi calls, and we got to listen to them.

Thanks Miss Bain and all the other teachers for organising activity week.

:  ]                 Written by Jago

On one of the days in activity week we had a lady come to room 9 from kiwi trust.

She taught us about kiwis and their predators.

Here are some facts:

1) Did you know that kiwi eggs are enormous ?

Or

2) That their nostrils are at the very front of their beak?

I learnt heaps about kiwis.

But my very favourite fact was that they had tiny wings just about 1/2 cm thick or just about

2 cm big. Well it's kind of impossible to write down all the facts that I learnt. You could actually do kiwi research yourself.

Juraj

Kiwi calling - click here to listen to the different calls.
We listened to the different calls of kiwi.
We learnt that the males have a higher pitch call than the females.