North Island Brown Kiwi

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Streifenkiwi ( Apteryx mantelli )

The brown ( Apteryx mantelli ) is the largest Kiwi style with a length of 50 to 65 cm. He is based in the Podocarpien forest of New Zealand North Island. Although it is the most common of the kiwi species, but in many places have become rare due to hunting pressure by whites of introduced predators or even eradicated. Refuges in which Streifenkiwis are still relatively common, include the Coromandel Peninsula, the Tongariro region, North Auckland Peninsula.

Traditionally, three subspecies are distinguished, but are considered more recently as a distinct species:

• Apteryx mantelli, North Island
• Apteryx australis, south of the South Island, Stewart Iceland
• Apteryx rowii, Okaritoregion the South Island

Apteryx rowii who lives at the Okarito Bay on the West Coast of the South Island, is genetically the populations of the North Island closer than the other species of the South Island.