{"id":28235,"date":"2021-02-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/worlds-rarest-seagulls-thrive-in-demolished-new-zealand-office-block"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T22:00:00","slug":"worlds-rarest-seagulls-thrive-in-demolished-new-zealand-office-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28235","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s rarest seagulls thrive in demolished New Zealand office block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>300 black-billed gulls nest among the concrete pillars of a building damaged in the Christchurch earthquake \u2013 but the colony is annoying some locals<\/p>\n<p>When the world\u2019s rarest gull started nesting in the bowels of an earthquake-damaged building in central Christchurch, it was hailed as a sign of the city\u2019s rebirth after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/feb\/22\/christchurch-earthquake-65-dead-100-trapped\">2011 disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 300 black-billed gulls \u2013 a critically endangered species endemic to New Zealand \u2013 have been nesting in a half-demolished office block on Armagh Street in central Christchurch since November 2019, surprising conservationists and delighting local birders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/worlds-rarest-seagulls-thrive-in-demolished-new-zealand-office-block\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>300 black-billed gulls nest among the concrete pillars of a building damaged in the Christchurch earthquake \u2013 but the colony is annoying some localsWhen the world\u2019s rarest gull started nesting in the bowels of an earthquake-damaged building in central &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1909,"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":[265,41,337,65,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","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\/28235","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\/1909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28300,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28235\/revisions\/28300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}