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Kiwi and children

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Kiwi and children

Most New Zealanders who see kiwi do not do so in the wild, but at zoos or kiwi houses. These young Kiwi kids make the acquaintance of their namesake at the Greenmeadows Game Farm, near Napier, in 1965.

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Archives New Zealand – Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AAQT 6539/A78,977

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Jock Phillips, Kiwi – Life and death, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10184/kiwi-and-children (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.