by Erin Reilly | Feb 17, 2022 | Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow, Save the Kiwi, Sponsors
The best things come in twos, apparently. On 2/2/2022, a very special kiwi chick hatched at the Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow. Given the name “Whakaora” which means “healing” or “to save”, this chick is the 200th kiwi to hatch at the dedicated hatching and brooding...
by Save the Kiwi | Dec 4, 2021 | Save the Kiwi
What a year! It would be easy when reflecting on the year gone by to think about what this resurgence of Covid and the extended lockdown (for those of us in Auckland) has meant. But I’m not going to because all of that aside, it has been an incredible year for Save...
by Save the Kiwi | Aug 5, 2021 | Crèche
Napier kiwi creche kiwi keeper Miriam Strachan and husbandry manager Bev Wilkinson say farewell to “Tai”. In October last year, we opened the doors to our newest facility. Earlier this week, we bid farewell to the last chick to be returned to the wild this...
by Save the Kiwi | Jul 2, 2021 | Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow
Final chick of the season flies the coop If you’d asked the Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow team at the beginning of the 2020/2021 kiwi hatching season how they thought it was going to go, they probably would have shrugged their shoulders. The dedicated incubation,...
by Save the Kiwi | Apr 6, 2021 | Crombie Lockwood Kiwi Burrow
Chocolate bunnies and … kiwi eggs? While you were snacking on hot cross buns this Easter, a special egg has hatched at a kiwi incubation facility just north of Taupō. On the evening of Good Friday, the 100th kiwi of the 2020/21 season hatched at the Crombie Lockwood...
