Kiwi Writing

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report. 
What animal is critically endangered and is the most precious animal we have in New Zealand? Yes it is the kiwi bird. The kiwi bird is not like any other bird because it has wings but cannot fly. It has a scientific name called Apteryx which means wingless. The wings they do have are useless because they are so small that they are unable to carry a kiwi’s body. The kiwi is the size of a chicken. They lay the largest eggs out of any bird in the world compared to their body. The kiwi has a long beak with nostrils at the tip of it beak. Kiwis are blind so they rely on their beak to find food. Kiwis are also different because their feathers are like hair. Did you know that their characteristics are similar to a mammal? There are other interesting facts about kiwis such as their diets, habitat and why they are endangered.

Diet
Did you know that most of the food the kiwi eats are invertebrates and most of them are earthworms. Kiwis are very lucky to be in New Zealand because there is a lot of wet land for earthworms to live. Did you know that the kiwi gets most of its water from their food such as juicy earthworms they have about 85% of water in them. All kiwis species like the brown kiwi eat different food. Some species of kiwi eat bracket fungi and frogs, most kiwi eat berries, seeds and leaves. Some kiwis even eat fish, eels or tuna out of a lake or pond then starts whacking the sea creature and then eats it. In order for kiwis to find food they need to have a habitat that meets their food needs.

Habitat
The kiwi is very adaptable and live in a huge range of habitats to provide them shelter, food, and more. Being adaptable it means they can change to meet the environment that they live in. Kiwis are not fussy on where they live and can live in native forest, rough farmlands, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes, and even snowy tussocks. Because kiwis are soil feeders, kiwi prefer places where they can get straight to the dirt rather than struggling through hard mud. While the kiwi is out hunting for food there are also predators out hunting the kiwi.

Predators
The kiwi is hunting low to the ground makes them vulnerable to a range of predators especially as the kiwi leave a strong scent as they venture out, this means predators can smell where they have been. Stoats, cats, dogs, possums, hedgehogs, rodents, and weasels these are all kiwis predators. Did you know that an average of 27 Kiwi are killed by predators every week? That’s a population of 1,400 kiwis killed every year in New Zealand. At this rate kiwis may disappear from the mainland in our lifetime. It is important to keep our New Zealand kiwi birds safe because they may get extinct if we do nothing to protect them from these predators.

In conclusion kiwi birds are one of New Zealand's icons and we need to keep them round for generations to come.The New Zealand kiwi bird will slowly die out of New Zealand but by making sure they have the right diet, habitat that is away from predators they will stay on the planet. Kiwis are one extraordinary bird so we must keep them safe.