{"id":11719,"date":"2017-10-21T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/21\/kea-or-kakariki-bird-of-the-year-contest-gets-new-zealand-in-a-flap\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T00:33:00","slug":"kea-or-kakariki-bird-of-the-year-contest-gets-new-zealand-in-a-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11719","title":{"rendered":"Kea or K\u0101k\u0101riki? Bird of the Year contest gets New Zealand in a flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s treasured avian species puff up their plumage as nation votes on who rules the roostBird of the Year leaderboard \u2013 check the pecking orderFirst there was the \u201cJacinda effect\u201d and a government to cobble together. Then came the mania for the jade K\u0101k\u0101riki, the shining cuckoo and the stern Ruru.New Zealand\u2019s Bird of the Year Competition has kicked off, and it has galvanised voters with the same intensity as the recent election. Now in its 13th year, the poll pits the country\u2019s rare and endangered birds against one another: the cheeky Kea versus the shy Kiwi, the dowdy Bar Tailed Godwit against the alluring Hihi. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/oct\/21\/kea-or-kakariki-bird-of-the-year-contest-gets-new-zealand-in-a-flap\" target=\"_blank\">Kea or K\u0101k\u0101riki? Bird of the Year contest gets New Zealand in a flap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s treasured avian species puff up their plumage as nation votes on who rules the roostBird of the Year leaderboard \u2013 check the pecking orderFirst there was the \u201cJacinda effect\u201d and a government to cobble together. Then came the mania for the jade K\u0101k\u0101riki, the shining cuckoo and the stern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}