Kiwis Going Blind

New Zealand's flightless icon is also turning into a blind one.

An article in New Scientist has found three kiwi in a South Island forest are completely blind and several others have severe sight problems.

95bFM reporter Mark Casson spoke to Te Papa's curator of vertebrates, Alan Tennyson who is downplaying concerns the blindness could affect their survival rates. Mark then spoke to Forest and Bird's Kevin hague who said the noctural native birds appear to be doing just fine, despite the lack of sight.