A kiwi eats around three to four hundred worms a night. But in drought-stricken Northland they're not.
They're starving to death.
So little rain has fallen in the last six months that the ground is rock hard, too hard for kiwis to forage.
Meanwhile, the pests are flourishing.
Campbell Live's Emma Keeling investigates the drought that's affecting man, beast and bird.
Watch the video.