The secret lives of lockdown kiwi

Wondering what kiwi are doing during lockdown...?

If you're lucky enough to have seen kiwi in the wild or in captivity, you may have noticed a couple of things about their behaviour. Like their calm, curious demeanour... their focused foraging... their gentle snorting to clear the nostrils...

If you're even luckier, you may have glimpsed the other side of those serene, snuffling, feathery fluff balls.

Something more like grunting. Hissing. Body-slamming.

Something more like this footage we captured from our burrow cams on Stewart Island kiwi/Rakiura tokoeka. Turn your volume up & prepare to see our National Icon in a way you've never seen it before.

NB no kiwi were harmed in the filming of this video. Weka & possums we can't be so sure.