{"id":37886,"date":"2021-10-11T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/consternation-in-new-zealand-as-native-bat-included-in-bird-of-the-year-poll"},"modified":"2021-10-11T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:06:27","slug":"consternation-in-new-zealand-as-native-bat-included-in-bird-of-the-year-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37886","title":{"rendered":"Consternation in New Zealand as native bat included in bird of the year poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winged mammal is the first non-bird to be included in the beloved annual poll, which has been running for 16 years<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/nov\/05\/new-zealands-bird-of-the-year-2019-the-most-important-election-aside-from-the-real-one\">bird of the year competition<\/a> has been hit with a flurry of controversy, after a species of native bat was granted entry into the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for the beloved annual election released today included shock newcomer the <a href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforestandbird.us2.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D056bc28505444958c9358e331%26id%3D7774668c29%26e%3D946d9146b3&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cl.keown%40forestandbird.org.nz%7Cacd544593b1d4c2c361f08d98c1bec78%7C347e3fddf0c64bf5b8e5f8bf019439ad%7C1%7C0%7C637694873832738295%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=%2FSvL14BA67FC0toGrmYD6RLdedBIKZxBmylmF8x%2FPl0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">long-tailed bat, or pekapeka-tou-roa<\/a>. It is the first time a New Zealand native land mammal has been included in the competition<strong>,<\/strong> which has been running for 16 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/consternation-in-new-zealand-as-native-bat-included-in-bird-of-the-year-poll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winged mammal is the first non-bird to be included in the beloved annual poll, which has been running for 16 yearsNew Zealand\u2019s bird of the year competition has been hit with a flurry of controversy, after a species of native bat was granted entry into&#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":[265,41,337,65,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37886","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\/37886","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=37886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37886\/revisions\/37887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}