Throwback to brighten the day!
(while I make new art)
#ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project)
Day 65: Southern brown kiwi (Apteryx australis)
Distinct feathers, large eggs, what's not to love?
#sciart #medart #dailyart #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #kiwi #kiwibird #birdart
(while I make new art)
#ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project)
Day 65: Southern brown kiwi (Apteryx australis)
Distinct feathers, large eggs, what's not to love?
#sciart #medart #dailyart #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #kiwi #kiwibird #birdart
May 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Throwback to brighten the day!
(while I make new art)
#ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project)
Day 65: Southern brown kiwi (Apteryx australis)
Distinct feathers, large eggs, what's not to love?
#sciart #medart #dailyart #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #kiwi #kiwibird #birdart
(while I make new art)
#ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project)
Day 65: Southern brown kiwi (Apteryx australis)
Distinct feathers, large eggs, what's not to love?
#sciart #medart #dailyart #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #kiwi #kiwibird #birdart
The summary:
Kiwi, Kiwis: 👫🧑🏾🤝🧑🏾: Homo sapiens
kiwi, kiwi: 🔑🟤: Apteryx spp
kiwifruit, kiwifruit: 🥝: Actinidia cvv
Kiwi, Kiwis: 👫🧑🏾🤝🧑🏾: Homo sapiens
kiwi, kiwi: 🔑🟤: Apteryx spp
kiwifruit, kiwifruit: 🥝: Actinidia cvv
March 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The summary:
Kiwi, Kiwis: 👫🧑🏾🤝🧑🏾: Homo sapiens
kiwi, kiwi: 🔑🟤: Apteryx spp
kiwifruit, kiwifruit: 🥝: Actinidia cvv
Kiwi, Kiwis: 👫🧑🏾🤝🧑🏾: Homo sapiens
kiwi, kiwi: 🔑🟤: Apteryx spp
kiwifruit, kiwifruit: 🥝: Actinidia cvv
That's the North Island brown kiwi, *Apteryx mantelli*, very similar to the southern brown kiwi - tokoeka, *Apteryx australis*. My pic, from long ago (Stewart Island - Rakiura subspecies):
April 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
That's the North Island brown kiwi, *Apteryx mantelli*, very similar to the southern brown kiwi - tokoeka, *Apteryx australis*. My pic, from long ago (Stewart Island - Rakiura subspecies):
I finally made an alterspring for free art requests/suggestions! Please feel to submit any ideas 💖 Or ask any questions too!
alterspring.org/@Apteryx
alterspring.org/@Apteryx
Apteryx
alterspring.org
June 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I finally made an alterspring for free art requests/suggestions! Please feel to submit any ideas 💖 Or ask any questions too!
alterspring.org/@Apteryx
alterspring.org/@Apteryx
From the BC strip.
June 14, 2026 at 12:52 AM
From the BC strip.
You know what this means. Only a matter of time before an open-minded apteryx gets too friendly one of the many feral North Island peacocks… nekminnit, real live laser kiwi!
Peacocks have a secret hidden in their brightly colored tail feathers: tiny reflective structures that can amplify light into a laser beam. scim.ag/3UEM2oQ
Peacock feathers can be lasers
Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom
scim.ag
August 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
You know what this means. Only a matter of time before an open-minded apteryx gets too friendly one of the many feral North Island peacocks… nekminnit, real live laser kiwi!
Ceci dit, ils auraient dû se méfier, car le nom savant du kiwi est l'aptéryx. Et quand tu en manges, c'est aptéryx et périls !
April 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Ceci dit, ils auraient dû se méfier, car le nom savant du kiwi est l'aptéryx. Et quand tu en manges, c'est aptéryx et périls !
1) KIWI (Genus Apteryx)
I feel like I'd be a kiwi if I was a bird. They're just these lil guys who come out at night and are a lil shy. I love em.
I feel like I'd be a kiwi if I was a bird. They're just these lil guys who come out at night and are a lil shy. I love em.
November 6, 2024 at 2:13 AM
1) KIWI (Genus Apteryx)
I feel like I'd be a kiwi if I was a bird. They're just these lil guys who come out at night and are a lil shy. I love em.
I feel like I'd be a kiwi if I was a bird. They're just these lil guys who come out at night and are a lil shy. I love em.
Grammar note:
Homo sapiens: Kiwi, Kiwis
Apteryx spp: kiwi, kiwi
Actidinia cvv: kiwifruit, kiwifruit
Homo sapiens: Kiwi, Kiwis
Apteryx spp: kiwi, kiwi
Actidinia cvv: kiwifruit, kiwifruit
June 11, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Grammar note:
Homo sapiens: Kiwi, Kiwis
Apteryx spp: kiwi, kiwi
Actidinia cvv: kiwifruit, kiwifruit
Homo sapiens: Kiwi, Kiwis
Apteryx spp: kiwi, kiwi
Actidinia cvv: kiwifruit, kiwifruit
Johnny Hart did kinda go down a Christianity rabbit hole, for sure - which is weird, because of what the "B" and "C" are short for, you know?
But I still have fond memories of the apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers.
But I still have fond memories of the apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers.
April 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Johnny Hart did kinda go down a Christianity rabbit hole, for sure - which is weird, because of what the "B" and "C" are short for, you know?
But I still have fond memories of the apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers.
But I still have fond memories of the apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers.
Kiwis at twilight. A coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf depicting 'Mantell's Apteryx', published in Zoological Sketches, vol. 1 (1861). The book's images were based on animals in the vivarium of the Zoological Society of London in Regent's Park.
August 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Kiwis at twilight. A coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf depicting 'Mantell's Apteryx', published in Zoological Sketches, vol. 1 (1861). The book's images were based on animals in the vivarium of the Zoological Society of London in Regent's Park.
Gattung: Apteryx
Art: Nördlicher Streifenkiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
▶️ Die Familien-Planung: Während ein Strauß ein Ei legt, das mickrige ein bis zwei Prozent seines Körpergewichts ausmacht, schiebt der Kiwi die biologischen Grenzen ins Extreme.
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Art: Nördlicher Streifenkiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
▶️ Die Familien-Planung: Während ein Strauß ein Ei legt, das mickrige ein bis zwei Prozent seines Körpergewichts ausmacht, schiebt der Kiwi die biologischen Grenzen ins Extreme.
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July 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Gattung: Apteryx
Art: Nördlicher Streifenkiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
▶️ Die Familien-Planung: Während ein Strauß ein Ei legt, das mickrige ein bis zwei Prozent seines Körpergewichts ausmacht, schiebt der Kiwi die biologischen Grenzen ins Extreme.
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Art: Nördlicher Streifenkiwi (Apteryx mantelli)
▶️ Die Familien-Planung: Während ein Strauß ein Ei legt, das mickrige ein bis zwei Prozent seines Körpergewichts ausmacht, schiebt der Kiwi die biologischen Grenzen ins Extreme.
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A very cool flightless bird! (Apteryx australis, considered Vulnerable). We have nothing like it here in NE US. Thanks for the video @noplanetbphoto.Sky.social !
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The Southern Brown Kiwi is one of nature’s coolest creatures! This one on Stewart Island, NZ.
#🪶 #birds #birdwatching #nature
#wildlife #bird #birding #kiwis #birdsofbluesky
#naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon
#nikonphotographer #naturelovers
#birdlovers #birdlife
#🪶 #birds #birdwatching #nature
#wildlife #bird #birding #kiwis #birdsofbluesky
#naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon
#nikonphotographer #naturelovers
#birdlovers #birdlife
February 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A very cool flightless bird! (Apteryx australis, considered Vulnerable). We have nothing like it here in NE US. Thanks for the video @noplanetbphoto.Sky.social !
🪶🌏
🪶🌏
Morphological and molecular description of a novel species of Eimeria (Apicomplexa) that infects extraintestinal tissues of kiwi (Aves: Apteryx spp.) | link.springer.com/ar... | Systematic Parasitology | #ornithology 🧪 🪶
April 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Morphological and molecular description of a novel species of Eimeria (Apicomplexa) that infects extraintestinal tissues of kiwi (Aves: Apteryx spp.) | link.springer.com/ar... | Systematic Parasitology | #ornithology 🧪 🪶
This cartoon is the only reason I can spell “apteryx.”
June 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This cartoon is the only reason I can spell “apteryx.”
Kiwi (Apteryx) - a genus of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. They're the smallest of the ratites, a group that includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries, the extinct moas and elephant birds - kiwi's closest relatives, with both lineages diverging 54 million years ago. 1/6
December 25, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Kiwi (Apteryx) - a genus of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. They're the smallest of the ratites, a group that includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries, the extinct moas and elephant birds - kiwi's closest relatives, with both lineages diverging 54 million years ago. 1/6
Kiwi to be renamed apteryx australis, oh no that’s Latin
December 4, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Kiwi to be renamed apteryx australis, oh no that’s Latin
Just saw the Berlin Zoo kiwi. It's bigger than I thought it would be.
August 23, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Just saw the Berlin Zoo kiwi. It's bigger than I thought it would be.
mi sti dicendo che il gioco non è sasso-carta-forbice-apteryx perché l'apteryx perdeva con tutti?
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
mi sti dicendo che il gioco non è sasso-carta-forbice-apteryx perché l'apteryx perdeva con tutti?
„Experten sprechen von einem Wunder. Mit wissenschaftlichem Namen Apteryx owenii genannt, handelt es sich um die kleinste und seltenste aller Kiwi-Arten, die bisher auf den beiden Hauptinseln Neuseelands als ausgerottet galt.“
#Neuseeland
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#Neuseeland
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July 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
„Experten sprechen von einem Wunder. Mit wissenschaftlichem Namen Apteryx owenii genannt, handelt es sich um die kleinste und seltenste aller Kiwi-Arten, die bisher auf den beiden Hauptinseln Neuseelands als ausgerottet galt.“
#Neuseeland
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#Neuseeland
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Wondering how her office refers to Apteryx australis...
March 4, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Wondering how her office refers to Apteryx australis...
Over millions of years, this odd-ball bird has been optimizing itself for a successful lifestyle that worked just great until Aotearoa New Zealand was colonized by humans (Polynesians) around 1300 CE.
Now, thanks to introduced species, ecological disturbances, they're endangered.
Now, thanks to introduced species, ecological disturbances, they're endangered.
Kiwi genome provides insights into evolution of a nocturnal lifestyle - Genome Biology
Background Kiwi, comprising five species from the genus Apteryx, are endangered, ground-dwelling bird species endemic to New Zealand. They are the smallest and only nocturnal representatives of the ra...
link.springer.com
June 14, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Over millions of years, this odd-ball bird has been optimizing itself for a successful lifestyle that worked just great until Aotearoa New Zealand was colonized by humans (Polynesians) around 1300 CE.
Now, thanks to introduced species, ecological disturbances, they're endangered.
Now, thanks to introduced species, ecological disturbances, they're endangered.
Hugs Apteryx
April 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Hugs Apteryx
"A remarkable bird from New Zealand. The apteryx (Apteryx Australis). Saturday magazine, no. 370, April 7th 1838."
The article talks about the scientific consensus in Europe- that the kiwi was either extinct or imaginary.
Ref A-436-009
National Library of New Zealand.
The article talks about the scientific consensus in Europe- that the kiwi was either extinct or imaginary.
Ref A-436-009
National Library of New Zealand.
September 5, 2024 at 3:05 AM
"A remarkable bird from New Zealand. The apteryx (Apteryx Australis). Saturday magazine, no. 370, April 7th 1838."
The article talks about the scientific consensus in Europe- that the kiwi was either extinct or imaginary.
Ref A-436-009
National Library of New Zealand.
The article talks about the scientific consensus in Europe- that the kiwi was either extinct or imaginary.
Ref A-436-009
National Library of New Zealand.