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When I visited Ngā Manu today, I was informed that the Kiwi egg that I mentioned in a post from August sadly did not hatch. I was also told that the new Kea that hatched at Ngā Manu earlier this year has been definitively sexed as female.

The Kea walk-through aviary is still closed to visitors, but the airlock section that goes up to the entrance door of this aviary can now be entered, which means that there is now a bigger area for visitors to be able to see the Kea through the wire of the aviary. I was able to see the new Kea for the first time today and she now looks to be almost as large as her parents.
 
I visited Ngā Manu for the first time this year today. The Kea walk-through aviary is now fully open to visitors again, and still houses the two adult and one juvenile Kea. Also, I did get to briefly see one North Island Brown Kiwi in the nocturnal house today.
 
Ngā Manu have announced that their juvenile Kea turned one year old on the 21st of July of this year, and that he now has a name; Mahira.

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I notice that this Kea is now referred to as a male, whereas I only ever saw Ngā Manu call him a female until now. On one of my most recent visits to Ngā Manu, one of the workers there (not a volunteer) told me that Mahira was "definitely female". Presumably a DNA check was done afterwards and showed otherwise. I thought that it was common knowledge among parrot-keepers that most parrots cannot be reliably sexed without investigating their DNA.
 
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