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Great Spotted Kiwi are nocturnal, and will sleep during the day in burrows.

Images and movies of the great spotted kiwi (Apteryx haastii)

The Great Spotted Kiwi is nocturnal in behavior.

Great Spotted Kiwi males chase females around until the females either run off or mate.

The Great Spotted Kiwi, as a member of the Ratites, is flightless.

Great Spotted Kiwi breed between June and March.

Vocalisations of the Great Spotted Kiwi include growls, hisses, and bill snapping.

The male incubates the egg, except for the Great Spotted Kiwi, A. haastii, in which both parents are involved.

The Great Spotted Kiwi population started declining when European settlers first arrived in New Zealand.

Only in Ostriches and the Great Spotted Kiwi does the female also assist in incubating the eggs.

The Great Spotted Kiwi, along with the other Kiwi species, is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.

Movements for saving the Kiwi are in place, and sanctuaries for the Great Spotted Kiwi have been made.

To find prey, the Great Spotted Kiwi use their scenting skills or feel vibrations caused by the movement of their prey.

Once the Great Spotted Kiwi was also preyed upon by the Haast's Eagle, which is now extinct.

Great Spotted Kiwi males have a call that resembles a warbling whistle, while the female call is harsh raspy, and also warbling.

Before the Great Spotted Kiwi was known to science, several stories circulated about the existence of a large kiwi called the Maori Roaroa.

Hurunui Mainland Island, south branch, Hurunui River, North Canterbury (Great Spotted Kiwi)

It is approximately the size of the Great Spotted Kiwi and is similar in appearance to the Brown Kiwi but its plumage is lighter in colour.

The Great Spotted Kiwi was first described as Apteryx haastii by Thomas Henry Potts, in 1872, based on a specimen from Westland, New Zealand.

"Happy Valley, in the Upper Waimangaroa, near Westport, is a stunning, wild and untouched landscape - home to 30 great spotted kiwi/roa and the rare Powelliphanta patrickensis snail.

The beech forests of the lower elevations are important habitat for two birds; the Great Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx haastii) and the South Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis).

The Great Spotted Kiwi, Great Gray Kiwi, or Roroa (Apteryx haastii) is a species of kiwi endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

The forests are home to a number of endemic species including two flightless birds that no longer survive in the lowland areas of the island, these are the western weka and the largest kiwi, the Great Spotted Kiwi.

The son of a small arms manufacturer, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1854, and recorded many natural observations as well as species that were then new to science, such as the Black-billed Gull and the Great Spotted Kiwi.

The Great Spotted Kiwi, Great Gray Kiwi, or Roroa (Apteryx haastii) is a species of kiwi endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

The local hapu are Te Roroa of the Ngāti Whātua iwi.

Clendon is of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Pākehā descent.

The Tribunal report delivered on 3 April 1992 found that the Crown had allowed Te Roroa's taonga to be violated.

With them was the Roroa chief, Te Hihi-o-tote who was related to Ngapuhi and to Ngati-Whatua.

Given the close kinship connections between Ngapuhi, Ngati Whatua and Te Roroa, this battle was typically a product of many take (issues) overtaking kinship linkages.

In 1806, during the Musket Wars, Ngā Puhi attacked the Te Roroa chief Tāoho at Arapohue, but was repulsed.

Famously, in hand-to-hand combat in 1806, at the battle of Waituna, Patuone killed the Te Roroa/Ngati Whatua chief Tatakahuanui.

The Trust is a joint partnership between the Native Forests Restoration Trust and Te Roroa, the Māori guardians of Waipoua.

While some disagreement remains, parties unanimously supported the legislation to implement the Te Roroa, Affiliate Te Arawa and Central North Island settlements, which were passed in September 2008.

The Great Spotted Kiwi, Great Gray Kiwi, or Roroa (Apteryx haastii) is a species of kiwi endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

This amendment came about following the controversial recommendation in the Waitangi Tribunal's Te Roroa Report [1] that the Crown purchase an area of private land for return to claimants in a settlement.

The Waitangi Tribunal in The Te Roroa Report 1992 (Wai 38) state that "[a]fter the war in the north, government policy was to place a buffer zone of European settlement between Ngapuhi and Auckland."

In November 1996, various members of Te Roroa filed a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal concerning the Maunganui block, the Waipoua Forest, Lake Taharoa and surroundings, and the Waimamaku Valley in Northland.

In April 2009, Alex Nathan, who is chairman of both Te Roroa Whatu Ora and Waipoua Forest trust, met with his counterpart from the Yakushima community in Japan, which has similar concerns about preserving ancient giant trees.