Kind of had a lot of Elephant Birds and Moa in a thread where "extinct species are outside the remit"
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Kind of had a lot of Elephant Birds and Moa in a thread where "extinct species are outside the remit"
Was waiting for someone to point that out
but those were brief summaries of extinct families rather than species-by-species accounts as found elsewhere in the thread.
Apteryx
Great Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx haastii)
Endemic to New Zealand; range restricted to the northwest corner of South Island.
Monotypic.
Photo by @Chlidonias
Little Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx owenii)
Endemic to New Zealand; range restricted to scattered introduced and reintroduced populations on offshore islands, and the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary on the southern tip of North Island.
Monotypic
No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Northern Brown Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
Endemic to New Zealand; range extends patchily throughout North Island.
Monotypic.
Photo by @Tomek
Southern Brown Kiwi (Apteryx australis)
Endemic to New Zealand; range restricted to southwest corner of South Island and Stewart Island.
Two subspecies recognised:
A. a. australis
A. a. lawryi - photo by @zooboy28
Okarito Kiwi (Apteryx rowi)
Endemic to New Zealand; range restricted to Okarito Forest on the west-central coast of South Island.
Monotypic
No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
You will find a picture of an Okarito kiwi here:
Okarito kiwi - ZooChat
I just uploaded a photo of all five kiwi species together (taxidermy specimens obviously):
All the kiwi species - ZooChat