Whakatāne Kiwi Trust Night Walks 2026

📅Regular night walks – every Friday starting April, 3 at 7pm

📅Kids night walks – every second Thursday starting April, 9 at 5:30pm

The Whakatāne Kiwi Trust Night Walks season runs from April to July each year, as this is the best time to hear kiwi calling to each other. Come along and learn about our local kiwi population and the work being done by our amazing volunteers to protect our national icon and other native taonga (treasures). Please be aware that it is unlikely that you will see a wild kiwi on this walk – they tend to run a mile when they hear a dozen humans coming down the path! However, kiwi calls are heard on most night walks, as well as other birds such as weka and ruru (morepork). There’s also plenty of other things to see – such as wētā, tunnel web spiders, harvestmen, peripatus, glow-in-the-dark fungi and glow worms!