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Kōrero: Kiwi

Recovering after a stoat attack

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Recovering after a stoat attack

Until they are almost a year old, kiwi chicks are vulnerable to attacks by stoats. This hand-reared chick, nicknamed Honey, was released into the Kaweka Range with a tiny transmitter at four months old. After only two weeks she was attacked by a stoat. She was brought back to Rainbow Springs in Rotorua, and with the help of antibiotics was nursed back to health.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Herald

Reference: 5 February 2002

by Richard Robinson

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Kiwi – Life and death, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/10182/recovering-after-a-stoat-attack (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.