{"id":35086,"date":"2021-08-12T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/hear-be-kiwis-new-zealand-celebrates-as-distinctive-cry-of-iconic-bird-returns"},"modified":"2021-08-12T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:17:48","slug":"hear-be-kiwis-new-zealand-celebrates-as-distinctive-cry-of-iconic-bird-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35086","title":{"rendered":"Hear be kiwis: New Zealand celebrates as distinctive cry of iconic bird returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi watchers have recorded the sound of the bird\u2019s song at many sites that were silent just five years ago <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a frigid, early-winter night, and across the forests and farmlands of Northland, people are crouching in the dark. They\u2019ve timed this night for the waning moon, so moonlight doesn\u2019t disturb any visitors. Scattered through the night, they sit, silently, and listen.<\/p>\n<p>The sound they\u2019re all hoping for is a high-pitched, piercing cry, or guttural croak \u2013 a sign that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">Aotearoa<\/a>\u2019s threatened, iconic kiwi has returned to patches of forests that had fallen silent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/hear-be-kiwis-new-zealand-celebrates-as-distinctive-cry-of-iconic-bird-returns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi watchers have recorded the sound of the bird\u2019s song at many sites that were silent just five years ago It\u2019s a frigid, early-winter night, and across the forests and farmlands of Northland, people are crouching in the dark. They\u2019ve timed this night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,337,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions\/35087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}