North Island Brown Kiwi foraging with its long bill

Aves · Apterygiformes

North Island Brown Kiwi

Apteryx mantelli

Nocturnal flightless bird with hair-like plumage, vestigial wings, no tail, and dense marrow-filled bones like a mammal.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
VUVulnerable
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1499 licence-filtered records across 20 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (6)