A 19-year-old female North Island brown kiwi named Nessus died Oct. 30 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. She had not exhibited any warning signs of clinical illness and was found dead in her exhibit ...

The National Zoological Park’s youngest brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli), Areta (pronounced AH-reh-tah), died in the early morning of Feb. 14. She had not exhibited any warning signs of clinical illness.

For the first time, an egg laid by a female brown kiwi at the National Zoo’s research facility in Front Royal, Va., hatched. The chick hatched on May 10. The kiwi is New Zealand’s national animal.