Great spotted kiwi  (Apteryx haastii)

Range

Confined to the South Island of New Zealand, where populations remain in three main, discrete areas: north-western Nelson to Buller River, Northern West Coast, and the Southern Alps between Arthur’s Pass and Lake Sumner (3) (4). A fourth population has also been established at Lake Rotoiti Mainland Island in Nelson Lakes National Park (4).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Found in a variety of habitats, including tussock grassland, damp, mossy beech forests, dry, alluvial podocarp and hardwood forest, and scrub-covered coastal pasture, from sea level up to 1,500 m, but mainly in the subalpine zone of 700 to 1,100 m (5).

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