Kiwi Animal Facts!

WALT: Use the elements of an Information Report to write a report about different topics.

Have you ever heard of a type of animal named Kiwi? Do you know New Zealand's native animal? I will be telling you about NZ’s native animal and some facts that others didn’t know about.

New Zealand’s most famous native animal is endangered. Why? Approximately 27 kiwi’s are killed by predators every week. Ferrets, Possums and Pigs are the predators that kill kiwi’s nearly every day. Us New Zealanders haven’t seen kiwi’s in a long time so most people are certain that they’ll be gone many years from now. A Kiwi is a little brown fluff ball with a long beak. Kiwi’s are flightless – their Latin species name is Apteryx, which means wingless, It has feathers like hair, nostrils at the end of its beak and an enormous egg.

These were the only facts that I knew about Kiwi’s so I hope one day you’ll eventually learn more about them. If you ever get to see one do not scare it away, do not try to kill it because we are losing them by the second of it. I hope this learning helps you throughout this year and enjoy.

Task Description -

Just like the other weeks we have a topic and we write about it. Whaea Kelly gave us a choice to write about a place or something within New Zealand. I picked our native bird Kiwi. Reason why is because Kiwis are about to be extinct. Why? because all of the Kiwis predators are hunting them down every day of our lives and they have no protection because they are flightless. Just like a penguin they are a bird that cannot fly. This is what my writing is about and I hope you learn something new.