New Zealand's Bird Of The Year Award Goes To The Country's Drunkest Bird
This is the kererū ( Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae ) . It is clumsy , greedy and oftentimes inebriated – and now it has the perquisite of being coronate New Zealand ’s 2018 Bird of the Year . Bird of the Year is engineer by preservation groupForest and Birdto raise awareness for the 168 bird mintage subsist in New Zealand , a third of which are currently threatened with extinction . This year voter turnout was high than ever with 48,000 suffrage cast in entire – up 7,000 vote from 2017 ....