Information on the kiwi bird?

Question

My daughter is doing a fact file on the North Island Brown Kiwi for school and we can not find out two things about it.

1. The degree of parental care towards its young
2. What are the Kiwi's reproductive organs.

Websites please

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Parental Care

The parents don't feed it after it hatches, it survives at first on the large reserve of yolk it contains.
After 6-10 days, it leaves the burrow with the father to go hunt for food.

Kiwi chicks stay with their parents for 3 weeks before getting literally kicked out of the nesting burrow.

Reproductive Organs

I'm assuming the reproductive organs will be similar to most other birds.
Picture of bird reproductive organs (doesn't say which bird in particular, so I'm guessing in general): http://z.about.com/d/birding/1/0/n/Z/birdsexorgans.gif

Note that males don't have a penis (most birds don't) and the testes are inside the body.

"In kiwis, both ovaries are functional (unlike most other birds where only the left ovary develops), and if more than one egg is laid in a breeding season, ovulation occurs alternately in each."

Answer 2

I was able to find this as far as parental care: http://www.savethekiwi.org.nz/AboutTheBird/KiwiLifeCycle/Theyoungbird.htm Apparently, there's not much beyond the actual incubation of the eggs.

The reproductive systen should be the same as for any bird:
http://www.holisticbirds.com/pages/reproductive0803.htm
http://sprout.phpwebhosting.com/~feistyhome/anatomy.htm

Answer 3

Be aware that a kiwi bird also refers to a New Zealand female and as such I ain't gonna open a can of worms by answering this in that context...

Answer 4

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/Facts/FactSheets/fact-brownkiwi.cfm