
BIR053-00454
Rowi kiwi egg candling at the West Coast Wildlife Centre in Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. This is the rarest of all the kiwi species with fewer than 400 animals remaining. This center is the place where they incubate eggs that are brought in from nests in the wild, increasing the chance of chick survival from 5% in the wild to 75% if the chick is raised captivity then released.
Keywords
- Apteryx rowi
- bird
- captivity
- chick
- Egg
- egg candling
- Franz Josef Glacier
- glow
- kiwi
- New Zealand
- okarito
- Okarito brown kiwi
- rare
- rarest
- red
- survivial
- West Coast Wildlife Center
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