A rare and impossibly cute all-white chick has hatched at New Zealand's Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre. "This is a first for us," said Bruce's chairman, Bob Francis, "and as far as we know, the first hatched in captivity."

He's not an albino, he's just the rare offspring of North Island brown kiwis who were brought over from Little Barrier Island in May 2010. The centre has seen the most successful kiwi breeding season in Pukaha's history, with 14 hatched chicks, and staff were delighted to see it punctuated by this surprise hatching.

To mark the occasion, the chick has been named Manukura, which means "of chiefly status" in the New Zealand Maori language.

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