{"id":314949,"date":"2025-12-14T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:35:10","slug":"rare-kiwi-pukupuku-chicks-found-on-new-zealand-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314949\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare kiwi pukupuku chicks found on New Zealand mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Normally rangers do not monitor birds during breeding season, however because these kiwis are so rare, they were keeping a close eye on them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it&#8217;s lucky they did. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now the the pair have been safely transported to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/63635526\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildlife reserve<\/a> &#8220;where they can grow and develop in a safe environment&#8221;, says Ranger Iain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the smallest species of kiwi, kiwi pukupukus are very vulnerable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/av\/29902860\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predators<\/a> like stoats, and it can take them 2-3 years to reach a &#8220;stoat-safe weight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By moving the chicks to a safe environment, the rangers hope to boost the kiwi pukupuku population further. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently it&#8217;s thought there are only around 2,000 of the birds left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normally rangers do not monitor birds during breeding season, however because these kiwis are so rare, they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-314949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}