Brown kiwis originally hail from New Zealand, but this one emerged from her egg in Front Royal, Va.

RIP Koa, National Zoo’s six-year-old kiwi.

Betty White visited the National Zoo today and got a private tour of the giant pandas, fluffy little kiwis and other specimens. If this isn’t the most SEO-friendly thing ever, we don’t know what is.

Friday can be so boring. Sick of working? Take a few moments to gaze on this photo newly posted by the National Zoo of a two-day-old kiwi chick.

Photo by Mehgan Murphy, courtesy National Zoo Break out the pink bows, the National Zoo’s newly hatched brown kiwi chick is a girl. While the little bird hatched a few weeks ago, the Zoo announced just yesterday that they’ve determined its gender. The Zoo is excited about this for a number of reasons, including the fact that “there are more than twice as many male brown kiwis outside New Zealand as female” and the…

Photo by Mehgan Murphy, courtesy National Zoo. This baby brown kiwi may not be quite as cute as a clouded leopard cub, but its birth Tuesday morning at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Bird House was a pretty big deal. Brown kiwis are one of the world’s most endangered species, and this was only the fourth time ever that a kiwi has successfully hatched at the Zoo. Only four zoos outside of New Zealand have…