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West Coast Wildlife Centre chick MRD

Image of Okarito Brown Kiwi

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Description: English: The West Coast Wildlife Centre, at Franz Josef on the southern West Coast of New Zealand, is part of Project Nest Egg, breeding the endangered local species of kiwi known as the rowi. They also keep tuatara, an ancient lineage of lizard-like reptiles extinct on the mainland of New Zealand. This rowi chick named Dusty was hatched in the 2015–2016 season. Date: 2015. Source: Released under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence by the West Coast Wildlife Centre (Q99767675) as part of the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project. Author: Grant Maslowski • West Coast Wildlife Centre.

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