The kiwi translocation season is an "epic effort across the motu to look after our national symbol", a conservationist says.

Imagine a bird so shy and mysterious that ... sometimes weighing up to a quarter of the female’s total weight. This remarkable adaptation means kiwi chicks are robust and ready to face the ...

Unlike most birds, female brown kiwis have two functioning ovaries and, unlike other kiwi species, they will lay multiple eggs per season. Q: Where does the phrase “lame duck” come from?

Fittingly, the giant wētā of the south were shaped by mountains. As the land rose, the wētā were driven skyward and forced to ...

The largest of our kiwi species, great spotted kiwi/roroa (Apteryx haastii ... At nesting time, incubation is more or less shared equally between the male and female parents. There are three long-term ...

But it could just as well represent a female bird, aggressively chasing whatever intruder gets too close to her nest. Not any female bird, though. An international team of researchers led by Sara ...

A tropical bird — never reported to have graced the Sunflower State — is now calling Kansas home. Mark Nolen, a Wichita ...

WNBA legend Sue Bird was named the first managing director of the dominant USA Basketball Women’s National Team, taking one ...

Sue Bird, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, is filling the new role of U.S. women’s national basketball team managing ...