As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Monday, 27 January 2014

New Zealand's smallest kiwi bird egg will hatch in the next couple of weeks at Rotorua's Rainbow Springs.

25 January 2014 

Kiwi bird breeders are eagerly awaiting the hatching of what is believed to be New Zealand's smallest egg.

The egg, dubbed Mini, weighed just 217 grams when it arrived at Rotorua's Rainbow Springs Kiwi Wildlife Park - compared to the 442.1 grams its sibling weighed at the same time.

It is expected to hatch in about two weeks and staff are hoping its small size won't result in health problems.

Rainbow Springs says its next smallest egg was the prenatal home of McMurdo, who was born in 2012 and weighed 238.5 grams.


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