Photo: RNZ/Nate McKinnonVoting for Bird of the Century - run by Forest & Bird - opens 9am tomorrow. The annual Bird of the Year competition has been renamed to celebrate the conservation group's centennial year. Photo: North Island Piopio, Turnagra tanagra, collected 8 September 1900, Waitotara district, New Zealand. She said these birds would provide a poignant reminder of the many bird species that were still endangered. "Given that 82 percent of New Zealand's bird species are still threatened with extinction, we want to remind people that their survival is still very much at stake," she said.
Source: Otago Daily Times October 29, 2023 11:04 UTC