Kiwi in Shakespeare Park

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Vocabulary:
Kiwi: a native bird of New Zealand
Brought over: transported
Nest: Nest can be a noun, meaning the home of a bird, but it can also be a verb, meaning to build and live in a nest.
Sanctuary: a safe place

Answers:
Twenty rare kiwi have been moved to Shakespeare Regional Park near Auckland. These birds are little spotted kiwi, New Zealand’s second-rarest kiwi, with a population of 1500. Ten females were brought over from Kapiti Island near Wellington, and ten males from Tiritiri Matangi Island near Auckland.
Kiwi nest on the ground and so there is always danger that rats will eat their eggs. These twenty kiwi are from two islands that have no rats. The area of Shakespeare park that they are being moved to is also a rat-free sanctuary.
Auckland council hopes that they can move another twenty kiwi into the park next year.
Shakespeare Park is a public park so in the future, people who visit there may be able to see wild kiwi. Until the kiwi population of Shakespeare Park builds up, people who want to see kiwi in the wild can visit Kapiti Island and Tiritiri Matangi Island to see this rare kiwi.