Kiwis lack an egg tooth, instead using their legs and beak to break through a relatively thin eggshell.
Prior to 2010, the Junior Kiwis consisted of the best New Zealand players aged 18 years or younger and would represent the country against the likes of the Australian Schoolboys, the New South Wales Under 18 side and the England Under 18 side, sometimes as curtain raisers to the senior Kiwi games.
Both Kiwi and Freedom operated with ad hoc liveries based on those of their lessors; Kiwi used a stylised Kiwi bird, while Freedom Air used a stylised sun.
The reactor was not intended for flight, hence the naming of the rocket after a flightless bird.
In the heart of the regenerating forest is one of only a handful of national kiwi sanctuaries where the Department of Conservation controls alien predators to protect a population of the North Island Brown Kiwi.
The Albuquerque Extension (SNPO-A) provided liaison with LASL, which was developing the KIWI and Phoebus reactor research programs.
The Suntots find a lost Kiwi, and the Smoggies kidnap it and Sport because there's a map home in its backpack.
The Trekka has since become something of a New Zealand icon representing the "Kiwi can-do" attitude of the 1960s.
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New Zealand (KZ 7) "Kiwi Magic" Runner-up in 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup, and the first 12 Metre to be made from fibreglass.
Goal kicking Wigan-based utility back Frano Botica, who had made his Kiwi debut in the first test against France, was preferred to Manly-Warringah goal kicking fullback Matthew Ridge for the three tests, while the only Kiwi on debut in Melbourne was Christchurch-born, South Sydney Rabbitohs winger Jason Williams, playing the first of 12 career tests.
In 2009 The New Zealand Herald named Moa as one of the "Top 10 Kiwi music successes of the past 10 years".
Among them Ernie "Kiwi" Kingston and from 1951 Maori professional heavyweight wrestler Keita Meretana of Wairoa.
He stayed 3 seasons in France playing only for Limoux, he helped the club on signing his friend Brian Jellick, and some other Kiwi players.
During World War II, the Kiwi was camouflaged with leaf mould, out of concerns that German bombers would use the Kiwi as a navigation marker during their raids over Britain.
Two sailors died in the 2011 race when WingNuts, a high performance keeled Sportsboat Kiwi 35, (berthed in Saginaw, Michigan) capsized and turtled in 75 mile per hour winds.
In 2005, Busch arranged the exchange of New Zealand's first natively-born white tigers Tane and Aotea (born January 2005), and later Kiwi and Rongo (Born October 2, 2005) with a white lion cub named Gandor from the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve near Johannesburg.
Fenakiwi or Festa Nacional do Kiwi (that is Portuguese for National Kiwi Fest) is a city celebration in the city of Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
The New Zealanders continued to attack and the Kiwi rammed the submarine three times, firing at point blank range with its main 4 inch gun and a 20-mm Oerlikon mounted on its bow (acquired unofficially at Noumea for two bottles of gin).
Other top gallopers to wallow in his wake that season included, Copper Belt, Kiwi Can, Sind, Black Rod, Ajanta, Blue Blood, and Chrisarda.
Kiwi forward Harrison is the son of ex Salford and Swinton professional Shane Hansen and is a product of the Folly Lane ARLFC who play at the Blue Ribbon Field, Swinton.
Kiwi skipper Glen Turner hammered a century (110) in that match, which also concluded in a draw.
He finished 8th in 1989 before his best finish in 1990, again in a Johnson Sierra, when he partnered Kiwi racer Paul Radisich to second place.
He took home the Andrew Gaze MVP trophy for leading the Breakers to their best season ever, averaging 24.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists over 28 games, making Penney the first Kiwi to be honoured with the award.
Kiwi Travel International Airlines operating as Kiwi Airlines between New Zealand and Australia (1994-1996)
Iverson was given a Laureatte Award from Aviation Week and Space Technology and secured a passenger sharing agreement from Richard Branson to feed Kiwi into Virgin flights.
Ernie "Kiwi" Kingston was a wrestler and film actor from New Zealand, relatively unknown, but still remembered for his role as the Karloff-like Frankenstein Monster in Hammer's The Evil of Frankenstein (1964).
Shortland Street producer Jason Daniel said Justine Jones was a popular character, central to both current and upcoming storylines, hence the decision to recast the role, a first for the kiwi soap opera.
Kiwi Andy Ewington (Andrew Ellington or Ewy) netted the silver goal dragflick to give the 'town a famous victory in UCD.
For example, prior to a joint 1080 poison operation undertaken by DOC and the Animal Health Board in Tongariro Forest in 2006, 32 kiwi chicks were radio-tagged.
The Trust plans to "bring back to the ecosanctuary native species that would have been there in times past" including Kiwi, seabirds, Kākāriki, South Island robin, Saddleback, Kākā, native bats, Tuatara and Jewelled gecko.
He first entered the public spotlight as the lead singer of Kiwi pop duo Nurture, formed with songwriter and producer Christopher Banks.
Charles Diver, the confectionery chef and floor production manager at Regina, who would later create other classic kiwi sweets, was given the task of using up waste product from other lollies of the time.
Many Kiwi bands and singers, including Suzanne Prentice and Ray Columbus, performed at the Soundshell in its heyday during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and came to the attention of Australian jazz musicians Vince Jones, Paul Grabowsky, Mike Nock, James Morrison, Don Burrows, top kiwi musicians Kim Patterson, Kevin Field, Frank Gibson Jnr, Nathan Haines, Mark de Clive Lowe, Andy Browne, Roger Fox, King Kapisi and Gray Bartlett.
Rio Tinto has threatened to close the Tiwai Point smelter if it can't get a cheaper deal for electricity from retailer Meridian, or the Government fails to give it a substantial subsidy to cover recent losses due to the strengthening Kiwi dollar and a fall in aluminium prices.
Despite his Kiwi background, Carroll was selected to represent Queensland in the Super League Tri-series.
Other plays include Ranterstantrum (2002) and My Name is Gary Cooper (2007), produced and staged by Auckland Theatre Company and starred a Samoan cast including Robbie Magasiva, Anapela Polataivao, Goretti Chadwick and Kiwi actress Jennifer Ward-Lealand.
Notable players included; Martin Moana, Gavin Hill, Tama Hohaia, Francis Leota, Darryl Beazley, 1994 captain Tukere Barlow, Butch Tua, 1995 captain Aaron Tucker, Tony Waikato, Kiwi Mark Woods and Hekewaru Muru.
This includes: Men’s and Women’s International rugby, NPC rugby, Kingz and Wellington Phoenix football, Impact World Tour, Habitat for Humanity, Super 12 rugby, Summer Jam, Volcanic Paintball, Crusty Demons, Super 14 rugby, WIPSEC Cultural Concert, Regional/National Marching Championship, NRL New Zealand Warriors, Waikato FC NZFC matches, Kiwi Bowl Gridiron and International football.