If all goes well he pulls it right out with the worm at the end; but if there is any likelihood of an accident, the kiwi gently moves his head and neck to and fro until he has the soil loosened up and so clears the way.
Like the flamingo, the kiwi uses his queer bill to get his living out of the soil.
There she lays two eggs and then her family cares are practically over for the time being, since it is the male kiwi who does most of the setting.
A LATE BIRD, BUT HE GETS THE WORM Another of the long-nosed earth workers, as curious in his make-up as the flamingoes, is the kiwi of New Zealand.
After 45 minutes of cooking time, brush hens generously with kiwi glaze.
Put hens in oven, and while they are cooking, prepare kiwi glaze.
The kiwi is in some measure compensated for the absence of wings by its swiftness of foot.
In 1851 the first kiwi known to have reached England alive was presented to the Zoological Society by Eyre, then lieutenant-governor of New Zealand.
Surrounded by all this Maori opulence, Kiwigrew to manhood.
Kiwi had meanwhile organised his tribesmen, and, reinforced from the southern districts, he advanced against the Kaipara.
Kiwi then advanced, and met a Kaipara war party coming overland, at Titirangi.
When on a visit to Ngati-Whatua to attend a funeral feast held near Helensville, Kiwitreacherously slew several of the local chiefs and a prominent chieftainess, named Tahataha.
Having eaten kiwi old and young, baked and boiled, roast and fried, I am able to state that its meat is tougher and more tasteless than barbecued boot-soles.
Into the threads of others were woven feathers of the kiwi and other birds.
The kiwi (Apteryx) remains as an example of this family.
At last the kiwi is driven into some swamp, where it half buries itself in the mud, and stupidly stands till it is caught.
And if, as naturalists lead us to infer, the moa was but a magnified kiwi in all respects, it is to be supposed that its flesh would be correspondingly tougher and coarser.
The kiwi lays a very large egg in proportion to its size.
Katipo killed a kiwi in the course of our morning's hunt, and this bird is now being skinned, cut up, and roasted on sticks.
The bell-bird and the tui sing a requiem over them by day, while the morepork and the kiwi wail for them at night.
They slid down the tree, and having persuaded the kiwi to give them a lift, which was pretty cool of them, considering, they set off and travelled in fine style for some way.
The kiwi is the latest of all the birds, but catches the most worms.
The kiwi buries itself asleep all day, and only comes out in the night to demolish an unpleasant and inconvenient proverb.
Indeed, I don't believe the kiwi himself has altogether made up his mind which to be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kiwi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
