An albino specimen of the New Zealand endemic flightless bird, the weka, may be more vulnerable to predators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

C.a. iredalei was endemic to Stewart Island, but died out when weka (Gallirallus australis) and rats (Rattus rattus) were introduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rakiura Island temperate forests] Reference

Even the flightless weka, a fierce and disorderly duck-sized bird, which is native to other parts of New Zealand, has been eradicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

Other birds with no close relatives beyond New Zealand found in the area include: blue duck Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos, wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis and western weka Gallirallus australis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand] Reference

I really believe the great desire of Brisk's life was to catch a weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Amusements] Reference

The Hourly Oscillators are bullish but weka so cautious approach is needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

U might think it's weka but u try u bite your front tooth on the sharp edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference

Mr Beattie said weka operations could be run within conventional farming to provide more income.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

I looked round, and there was a weka bent on thoroughly investigating the intruder into its domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Life in New Zealand] Reference

During the day these blankets were always hung outside on a tree, out of the reach of the most investigating weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Amusements] Reference

This afternoon he visited Kapiti Island, where he was greeted by sunshine and birdsong as well as rogue weka and takahe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

There are also saddlebacks, stitchbirds, kaka, kokao, weka: the winding paths to the top of the island are thick with birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Federated Farmers is backing entrepreneurial farmer, Roger Beattie, in his quest to secure trial approval to supply farmed weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

As many as 85 per cent of 8000 viewers in a Close Up TV One survey on Monday felt Mr Beattie should be allowed to try weka farming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

Banks Peninsula entrepreneur Roger Beattie has won the support of many farmers in wanting to put eastern-buff weka on dining tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

It will have to run from the cannibalistic adult tuatara, and would make a tasty snack for the morepork (native owl), kingfisher and weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference

Farmer lobby group Federated Farmers has put its weight behind Mr Beattie in his quest to secure approval for a trial to supply farmed weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

When startled or hunted, the weka glides, for it can scarcely be called running, with incredible swiftness and in perfect silence, to the nearest cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Amusements] Reference

The melancholy cry of a bittern, or the shrill wail of the weka, startled me from time to time, but there was no other sound to break the eternal silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Amusements] Reference

Island are hybridised, and I can understand DOC's reluctance to compromise the genetic status of other local weka populations that these birds could affect.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Three charges have been laid against a Kawau Island resident after 14 endangered weka were killed by dogs at Kawau Island Historic Reserve in May this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

A tussock, a clump of flax, a tuft of tall tohi grass, all serve as hiding-places; and, wingless as she is, the weka can hold her own very well against her enemies, the dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Amusements] Reference

"I appreciate that Open Bay Islands weka, as a predatory species, are having a detrimental effect on skinks, lizards and the rare species of leech on the two islands," Mr Carter said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

DOC should be looking at projects like the Maungatautari project in the Waikato or the huge enclosed area at Cape Kidnappers as potential homes for the bulk of the Open Bay Islands weka population.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

The weka on Macquarie Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacQuarie Island, Australia] Reference

"I accept that weka populations located on the two islands off the West Coast of the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

"Conservation projects around the country are creating enclosed or protected areas where species like weka can be introduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

"Roger Beattie firmly believes that the weka can be domesticated and if that is the case, it could well become our version of the turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

Our native weka: conservation not extermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Charges laid after 14 weka killed by dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

Reasons to farm weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

weka 3.7.1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Tags: farming, Greenwash, weka.    From Wordnik.com.  [frogblog] Reference

Support for entrepreneur's weka-as-turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference