Photo: Supplied A young female kiwi was killed by two feral dogs in the Maungataniwha Native Forest in central Hawke's Bay last month on a property owned by conservation group the Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust. The bird, Orotika, came from an egg recovered in 2017 as part of the national Operation Nest Egg kiwi conservation initiative, and was released into the Maungataniwha Native Forest in 2018. Manager at the trust Pete Shaw said staff members heard dogs barking while doing kiwi listening to count numbers of the protected birds. They put trail cameras out later and discovered the two dogs. Shaw said the bird was found dead on the road soon after.