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Ben McKay

The hills are alive with the sound of wild kiwi chicks

A kiwi restoration project in New Zealand's capital is helping save the treasured bird. (HANDOUT/CHRISTINE STOCKUM FOR CAPITAL KIWI)

In the hills outside Wellington, the call of kiwis can be heard for the first time in perhaps a century.

The endangered flightless bird, so beloved by New Zealanders they are happy to known as Kiwis themselves, are being slowly and surely returned to their native habitat.

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