'Manufestos and wings': The new twist in this month's Bird of the Year competition

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/1255954/manufestos-and-wings-the-new-twist-in-this-month-s-bird-of-the-year-competition

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9 Comments

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 10d (1 reply)

Again the humble sandfly gets a snub. If a bat can win so should our bitey airborne tiny thing.

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 10d

When our girls were little I tried as I much as I could to convince them that sea gulls were sandfly because they lived on the sand and could fly

absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 10d

Voted Morpork again.

MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 10d

Voted. High birds all the way!

Dave@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 10d (4 replies)

Voting happens here: https://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/#voting

Anyone got a favourite or one they want to campaign for, try to pull in some extra votes?

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 2 pts · 10d (3 replies)

Fernbird or Bittern for me

Dave@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 10d (2 replies)

I'm an undecided voter, gonna try to sell them to me? What do you like about those two in particular?

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 2 pts · 10d (1 reply)

both very unassuming, and seldom seen.

You might see fernbirds, but will more often just hear a double tick-tick-tick-chirp

Australasian bittern, good luck see one of them. If you are very lucky you might just hear one 'booming' with a himpf-himpf call

Dave@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 10d

Well if seldom seen is the criteria, why not Fairy tern? only 40 left, and they are sea birds, so not many chances to see one!