Forest and Bird
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Voting for Forest & Bird’s “Bird of the Century” opens from this morning for the subsequent two weeks.
Voting for Forest & Bird’s “Bird of the Century” opens from this morning for the subsequent two weeks.
The annual Bird of the Year competitors has been renamed to have fun the conservation group’s centennial yr.
Forest & Bird chief government Nicola Toki says there may some controversy, with the kākāpō allowed this yr – after being barred in 2022 for being “too popular”.
77 native birds will vie for the title – together with 5 species that had turn into extinct inside the final 100 years… the piopio, the bush wren, the whēkau or laughing owl, the South Island snipe and the huia – would even be included.