Last November, 11 North Island brown kiwi were released into the Mākara hills after an ambitious pest eradication project.The project leader, Capital Kiwi's Paul Stanley Ward, said they had been followed weekly through transmitters on their legs."We're wanting to know that they're happy in the wild, some of these birds have been in a captive environment for most of their life."Ward said the birds were all accounted for at present, eating well, and in an exciting discovery, an egg was found in a recent check-up."As our kiwi managers will tell us - you can't count your kiwi until they hatch but it is a significant moment and something that we're very excited about.""