Keeping Up With the Kiwi – TangataWhenua.com
3 months ago This update was written by Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute bird keeper Wesley Bailey. Last summer, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, experienced a bird baby boom. If you have followed my fellow keeper Erica Royer’s updates, you already know that our team helped raise four Guam kingfishers—a species considered extinct in the wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. At the same time, we celebrated the hatching of two male brown kiwi chicks—a boon to the population of this vul...