The Hoiho Christmas miracle…

The Hoiho - yellow-eyed penguin - is one of our most endangered birds, numbering around 200 breeding pairs.

So, you can imagine the excitement at Dunedin's Wildlife Hospital when staff successfully hatched eight Hoiho eggs that had been uplifted from the wild.

It's the first time Hoiho have hatched in captivity.

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