A raptor with no qualms about eating its opponents wins New Zealand’s annual bird election
Wellington, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand Annual Bird Choice is objecting by cheeky parrots, sweet shifting birds and cute, Puffball Robins. This year’s winner was a mysterious Falcon that wouldn’t think of them twice about food.
Kārearea, the native name of the New Zealand Falcon, crowned the bird of the year on Monday. However, the annual survey conducted by Conservation Group Forest & Bird is not an ordinary online vote.
. Violent election Volunteer (human) campaign managers apply for their favorite bird. Bird enthusiasts fly feathers while trying to shake the people through MEM wars, garbage -speaking poster campaigns and dance routines performed in bird costumes.
Forest & Bird CEO Nicola Toki said, Bird The bird of the year became a cultural mother in 2005, a simple E -Posta survey, ”he said. “There is a serious message behind the memes and turmoil.”
The contest shows joy in a bird country
The competition draws attention to the domestic bird species of New Zealand and 80% in trouble. But he draws passionate fandom because the new Zealands are obsessed with birds.
In a country where there is no domestic land mammals except for two bat species, birds dominate the supreme. They are involved in art, jewels, school children’s songs, and they are known as “kiwis”, known by New Zealands abroad.
Dear birds contain mountain parrots harassing tourists and pigeons that are so drunk in fruits, sometimes they fall from the trees.
TOKI, “This is not the country of lions, tigers and bears,” he said. “The birds here are strange and wonderful, and perhaps not what you expect to see in other countries.”
The result follows a scandalous campaign
Twenty years ago, the first competition received less than 900 votes. This year, more than 75,000 people with 5 million casting ballots.
Tonight last week, the host John Oliver He volunteered as a campaign manager in 2023Mostly ask for joke charges from the new Zealandalı of American intervention. Perhaps inevitably, Oliver’s bird won a 290,000 voted landslide, Grebeli Grebeli, Australian crested.
Other discussions hit the survey. In 2021, there was a slight turmoil when he won the title of a bat, although he was not a bird.
In 2018, the voting was mixed by a foreign influence scandal, where hundreds of fraudulent votes for a bird in Australia, who shared its name with the term an antipodean slang for sex. Voters should now verify the E -Post addresses used to vote.
Forest & Bird said that 87% of the votes in this year’s survey came from New Zealand. Falcon more than 14,500 games were found to be fair and square.
Encrypted, mysterious winner
The magnificent Kārearea can fly at a speed of more than 200 km per hour (124 miles per hour and swing to capture smaller birds. Endemic species are threatened in New Zealand, vulnerable to electric shock in the wires and the loss of forest habitats.
Phil Bradfield, the Board of Trustees of Kārearea Falcon Trust in Marlborough on the southern island of New Zealand, said, “Because they are a mysterious bird and partially encrypted, for usually hiding well.” He said.
Official figures, although the actual number is unknown, recommend that 5,000 to 8,000 New Zealand hawk remain. Bradfield, “fast and insidious and very special” Raptor is the winner of a righteous year, he said.
Some of them celebrate ‘Underbird’ campaigns
Other campaigns knew that the victory would take a miracle on Monday. Ugly – but not ugly enough to be funny – a slope that is perceived as unknown or boring is faced with slog.
This does not deterd the bird lovers. The year 2025 chose to choose a stump for the contestants, whom 73 bird opponents attracted campaign managers and some of whom they know they would lose.
The first was Marc Daalder, a base campaign for Tākapu or Australia Gannet.
(Carrying a campaign for one of the less popular birds is a more satisfactory experience, because you know that your bird’s votes are the result of your hard work, ”he said, a political journalist and the campaign manager of the campaign manager three times.
The questionnaire gives a serious message
Despite the participation of nearby voters, TOKI from Forest & Bird said that New Zealands would give up some of the most threatened species, especially because they grow more costly to protect against predators such as cats, rats and Stoats.
Sözler The consecutive governments in New Zealand reference to the tourism campaigns that support the country’s natural landscapes and have cultivated the protection investment, the cornerstone of New Zealand’s economic welfare.
“People come here to see our local birds and their places,” he said. “They don’t come here to see shopping malls.”
