Brown Kiwi - adult one standing in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible on ground (Apteryx australis). Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve, Northland, North Island, New Zealand. The kiwi is New Zealand's most ancient living bird and a biological oddity. Flightless and largely nocturnal its one-off evolutionary design holds all sorts of biological records. Kiwi build burrows and lay a huge egg that produces a mature fully-feathered independent chick. And that's where they are at th