A kiwi has been caught breaking social isolation rules by walking around someone's kitchen.

The bird was filmed walking around a Department of Conservation (DOC) ranger's house in Little Barrier Island.

DOC posted the video to its Instagram page and said that the teenage kiwi invited himself in to have a little nosy around the local resident's home.

The post read that: Communication channels can be pretty hit and miss on Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island Nature Reserve and someone clearly didn't pass the memo onto this kiwi that social distancing be applied between Kiwis not in your 'bubble'."

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"The rangers did not want to stress the bird by attempting to catch it, so they quietly stood by and watched to see what it would do next. The kiwi casually made its way through the dining room and kitchen, before slowly heading out the kitchen door, down the ramp, and back into the forest.

"Kiwi are normally nocturnal, but it is not uncommon to see them during the day. On Hauturu, the rangers had recently seen kiwi drinking from their garden pond due to recent dry conditions. Their observations concluded that this kiwi was neither distressed nor dehydrated, just curious.

"A day later they found the kiwi in their garden dining on a centipede."

"It's occurrences like these that highlight why Hauturu is considered to be one of the most important reserves of its kind in the world," A DOC blog post about the kiwi said.