{"id":25913,"date":"2020-12-22T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/new-zealand-village-turns-off-street-lights-to-stop-birds-crash-landing-on-to-roads"},"modified":"2020-12-22T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:04:46","slug":"new-zealand-village-turns-off-street-lights-to-stop-birds-crash-landing-on-to-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25913","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand village turns off street lights to stop birds crash-landing on to roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westland petrel fledglings have been hitting the roads, possibly mistaking the lights for bioluminescent fish they feed on<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to save a rare bird species, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> village is trialling an innovative strategy: it is switching off all its street lights to stop baby birds becoming confused and crash landing on to the road.<\/p>\n<p>Westland petrels, which are blackish-brown with ivory beaks, breed only along an 8km stretch of coastal forest in the foothills near Punakaiki, a South Island town of fewer than 100 people and popular with tourists for its pancake rock formations and gushing ocean blowholes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/new-zealand-village-turns-off-street-lights-to-stop-birds-crash-landing-on-to-roads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westland petrel fledglings have been hitting the roads, possibly mistaking the lights for bioluminescent fish they feed onIn an attempt to save a rare bird species, a New Zealand village is trialling an innovative strategy: it is switching off all its &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/25915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}