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...Kiwi?

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 I haven't been buying many expensive puzzles this year. I finally got a 3D printer a few months ago and have been scratching the itch with TICs and burrs and such.. My money has instead been going towards a dream, probably-once-in-this-lifetime holiday to New Zealand that is now only 94 sleeps away (yes, I'm definitely counting). So what did my beloved Karakuri Creation Group do when I was trying not to spend money? They go and release a puzzle based on the national emblem of New Zealand, the Kiwi. This hobby will ALWAYS find a way to drain your accounts, always. The chances of seeing a real one when I'm there are probably slim, they're nocturnal and like to hide in undergrowth, but this walnut one from Yoh Kakuda is a solid alternative. What they lack in flight, they make up in chonky, huggable, fuzzy-potato-ness.  Can an idiot solve Kiwi? Yes, being a birdbrain would help actually. Get it? Birdbrain? 'cause it's a bird, and there's no brain here? Yeah, ok...