NZ Native Bird Week: The kiwi is monogamous and can run 20kph

NZ Native Bird Week: The kiwi is monogamous and can run 20kph

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the Day, Day day day day. Do do do.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do do do do do do doo.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
This week's Fact of the Day theme native birds of
New Zealand. Because it's the year and I think I'll
have to go to show Kivist JP. Yeah, producer Jared,
I think we've done native birds before. Wow, this is
a double up.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
No, but then it's it's.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Gonna be all new facts. Okay, all new facts because
I'm very passionable.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Voting is open.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
It is shout out to the cuckapool. Yeah a recent
I'm not a recent convent. I've always loved it. But yeah,
having met one in person, great birds, great birds. You
don't like to go on about your charity. But the
lawyer the more pork also a huge fan of yao owl.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Very cool. Those are my top two for the for
the bood of the get out there and vote well.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Today's bird that we're focusing on is one that kind
of this slips under the radar.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
But it's our national sparrow.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, the CommonAlly, the common It.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Is getting some recognition that it deserves.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, it's the Kiwi, you damn fool. Yeah, the Kiwi,
the bird found nowhere else, although it is related to
Ostrich's EMUs and cass Weary. It wasn't there a news
story last week someone claiming it's Australian and it got here,
and it got here after the Cuckapool they did a
thing and it would have Yeah, it would have arrived after.
We've always considered it to be the perfect example of

(01:38):
island evolution, right, but apparently it got here after some
of the other birds that as long as it's not
Australia so famous here, Yeah, it's changed enough and they
don't have any left. But the thing I wanted to
talk about today about the Kiwi that I did not
know in today's facto.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Two parts.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, One, they mate for life. They're a monogamous bird
boring and then when are they going to stinks? Yeah,
they're not splicing.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, he's going he always got a hit a he's
been a golf for too long. Yeah, come home.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
They're not scheduling and they love making. Yeah, and that's
a crucial part of monogamy. Yeah, you've got to prioritize
year sweet acts of romance. The second is the key.
We can run twenty kilometers an hour. Yeah, because I
knew that they could book. Yeah, there's some wild videos
of like Big Fat he was on Stuart Island island.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
And they're massive. Yeah, and they honk it, they boot it.
I really want to go to Stuart Island again.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I've only been once and I stayed one night in
two thousand and four, but there was something absolutely magical
about that spot. And yeah, you see people who go
for hikes not even that far from the township.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, and they see keys in real life.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Twenty kilometers an hour, twelve miles an hour for those
using the Imperial speeds, so steam that's a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
You put the.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Treadmill on twenty kilometers an hour and se how long
you can keep that up? And they are in little
wee leagues. Yeah, tiny, little, tiny little. I was just
imagining a Kiwi on a treadmilk momentarily totally good. Yeah,
if you could, how would you do it? It has to
be dark, so it wouldn't be your average gym. You
probably have to turn the music down, turn the.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
TV off on the treadmill. It wouldn't like that.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, juice TV in the background ucking out all the hits.
Turn that right down, turn the lights down. Yeah, probably
want to go in the middle of the night to
a twenty four hour gym. Yeah with your Kiwi Yeah,
and pop it.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
On the crank.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah. So Today's Fact the Day in the first four
New Zealand Native Bird Week is that the kiwi is
a monogamous bird who can run twenty kilometers an hour