Kiwi Information Report

  Kiwis
Kiwi are a native animal from NZ that do not fly and come out at night. They have strong feet and a long beak with a strong sense of smell. It has the long beak for jabbing the dirt and sniffing for bugs. Their legs are for kick predators and scratching the ground.

The kiwi  does have a lot of mammal-like features but they are not mammals. About 27 kiwi are killed by predators every week. That’s a population decline of around 1,400 kiwi every year.  At this rate, kiwi may disappear from the mainland in our lifetime. One hundred years ago kiwi numbered in the millions.  One dog can wipe out an entire kiwi population in a matter of days, 50% of chicks survive.

Their adaptations are not working for them as well as they used to. Before people kiwi had no predators and lived well. When the maōri came they got people as a predator and then the pakeha people started bring dogs, cats, rats, stoats and weasels here. The kiwi can't fly so they are sitting ducks. They stopped flying so they did not have to compete with the other birds.

In 2019 the population of kiwi was around 68,000 and declining.

Here is some links to a site with good kiwi facts

kiwi facts

Limericks

A limerick is a type of poem that has a certain ryming pattern and it has 5 lines. lets say that A was one line and B is another the ryming pattern will look like this AABBA  so here are a couple examples of a limerick.

A creature of charm is the gerbil

It's diets exclusivly herbal

It grazes all day 

On bunchs of hay

Passing gas with an elgant burble

        An elderly man called keith 

      Mislaid his set off false teeth

       They’d been laid on a chair 

       He’d forgot they were there

   He Sat down and was bitten beneath

And if you want to hear my own limrick that I made well your in luck here it is.

There once was a ghost

      Who climbed up a lamp post

                            To get a toad 

With a load

 Who was eating toast

Argument

Here I am again with another argument but this time it is about banning 1080 poison and if you do not like 1080 poison good on you. Why because we should not need it we can hopefully keep it under control and if other countries have banned it then why can't we. And its also killing native birds and it has a cycle affect.

Should 1080 poison be banned?🖒🖓

I think 1080 poison should be banned because it's killing more than the d.o.c {department of conversation} wants to kill. It's also getting into waterways and animals are drinking the water. 1080 poison probably kills more birds than rodents do. Experts say that 1080 is banned in several countries including Brazil, Belize, Cuba, Laos, Slovenia and Thailand so why can't we ban it.

First of all it is killing more than its supposed to.its killing more than possums and rats its killing native birds.  Why can't we find different ways that is just as good can't we just use loads of traps, I have killed about ten rats this last month if we can get loads of traps all over the place we would probably have good control over the pests.

Secondly It’s getting into waterways. I’ve done the research It does not kill marine life, but animals will drink from creeks then probably die in the creek if there grazing or sleeping on the bank of the creek So making the creeks unsafe.

 Lastly It might actually be killing more than rodents do. so there might actually no point in using it expert say “1080 kills  everything—native animals as well as introduced pests.” Australia's native mammals, birds and reptiles have developed much higher tolerance to 1080 than introduced animals, due to their evolution with naturally occurring 1080 in some native plants. ... “1080 kills only domestic dogs, it doesn't kill wild dogs.

So  just a recount 1080 should be banned in new zealand because it's not just killing pests, its getting into waterways and It's probably killing more than pests do. Thank you for understanding

Myth

The last couple of weeks we have been writing our myths Ms Power has read us about five myths to help us write our myths which must be about a natural phenomenon. I've just finished my myth, it's about how the grass came to be green.



 

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