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Kia ora Manukura

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The first white kiwi chick to hatch in captivity is being looked after at a wildlife centre in the Wairarapa.

The chick, called Manukura, is an offspring of kiwi transferred from Hauturu/Little Barrier this year.

The name means “of chiefly status”.

Manukura, born on May 1, is being hand-reared at Pukaha Mount Bruce’s new kiwi nursery as part of a $1.4 million upgrade of the nocturnal house.

Visitors can see it being weighed daily and fed at 2pm.

It is the 13th of 14 kiwis successfully hatched at Pukaha Mount Bruce national wildlife centre this breeding season, the most successful since 2003 when kiwi were first introduced into the wild there.

Compared to this season’s 14 chicks, between 2005 and 2010 a total of 10 chicks were hatched and returned to the forest.

“As far as we know, this is the first all-white chick to be hatched in captivity,” Pukaha Mount Bruce Board chairman Bob Francis said.

Rangitane chief executive and Pukaha board member Jason Kerehi said tribal elders saw the white chick as a ‘tohu’ or sign of new beginnings.

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    MattR

    @Yutsano: Just read the ESPN version of that story which is a bit longer and has some more details. In addition to the obvious kudos to JT Thomas, the bus driver who initiated the initial meeting deserves a lot of praise too.

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    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    Oh come on – everyone loves white Kiwi chicks. Blondes or brunettes.

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    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    Well, that and they’re stroppy, opinionated, fun to be around, and challenge us mere males.

    But putting out helps a lot.

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    AxelFoley

    ‘Course they make a big deal over a white chick. Let her have been a black chick and they wouldn’t give a damn.

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    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    i just liked how his first instinct was to duck back in his seat(first angle from behind home plate) and let the security at the ball park, and the woman in red whom i am guessing was part of his detail, get between him and the ball. the second angle shows him being well protected, and only in the third does he look at all like he isn’t a complete coward.

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    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    @AxelFoley:

    Brown chicks, if you don’t mind – and we do give a damn. It’s just that white chicks are more important somehow…

    (I believe NZ does keep tabs on the total kiwi population down to the individual bird level. DoC is obsessive about that sort of thing.)

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