While filming the American show in New Zealand, a contestant killed and made a meal of a Weka, a flightless bird considered endangered in many parts of the country. The contestants Spencer 'Corry ...

In footage from the show, Mr Jones apologised for disrespecting the country by eating the bird. “It was shortsighted ... The killing and consumption of a weka, a protected species, happened ...

The North Island weka population is booming in the Bay of Plenty. Numbers are growing and the birds are becoming more common ...

A decline in population of one of New Zealand’s most iconic native birds - the weka - is rapidly reversing on a North Island farm. The bird’s numbers, which are estimated to have doubled at ...