"While all our chicks are special this is an extra special arrival, marking a significant milestone in the efforts to help preserve our national icon.
"Our 1500th kiwi is an extremely bright, alert and energetic wee chick. He or she must have been in a real hurry to hatch for Christmas because the active hatch only took around 10 minutes, which is very, very fast indeed," Ms Bean said.
It would normally take two to three hours. The kiwi only took four days from being "internally pipped" to hatching, a process normally taking five to six days.
"The 1500th chick is from Tongariro National Park, which is a nice way of celebrating this milestone, because the very first kiwi we hatched nearly 20 years ago was also from Tongariro."
Ms Bean, who has been involved in more than 1000 hatches at the Kiwi Encounter, said the latest hatching was her favourite.
"Not only because this little chick is our 1500th but because of how fast, active and lively the hatch was."
The park has been around since 1932 and involved in kiwi conservation since 1995.
It plays a vital role in hatching kiwi, as most chicks don't survive in the wild because of predators, such as stoats.
The eggs take 78 days to incubate and Department of Conservation staff lift partly incubated eggs from burrows and take them to Kiwi Encounter to hatch.
After hatching, kiwi are raised until they hit 1kg - big enough to ward of predators - and released back into the wild. There, this kiwi might run into its dad, Chance.
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