Watch: Kiwi Hatching

North Island Brown Kiwi on a table

See the beginning of a kiwi egg hatching in this behind-the-scenes Facebook Live at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute!

Keeper Wes gives viewers at home a close-up look at how the eggs are incubated and cared for.

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