{"id":38546,"date":"2021-11-01T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/01\/best-bird-a-bat-tiny-flying-mammal-wins-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-competition"},"modified":"2021-11-01T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T22:19:00","slug":"best-bird-a-bat-tiny-flying-mammal-wins-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38546","title":{"rendered":"Best bird a bat: tiny flying mammal wins New Zealand bird of the year competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No stunt, say organisers, who wanted to raise awareness of the pekapeka-tou-roa, which faces the same threats as native birds<\/p>\n<p>In a huge upset to New Zealand birds, but a win for one of the country\u2019s only native land mammals, a bat has swooped in \u201cby a long way\u201d to take out the annual bird of the year competition.<\/p>\n<p>Forest and Bird, which runs the election, thew the bat among the pigeons as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/consternation-in-new-zealand-as-native-bat-included-in-bird-of-the-year-poll\">a surprise entry<\/a> this year. 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\">pekapeka-tou-roa<\/a>, or long tailed bat, is one of two bats in the country and one of the rarest mammals in the world. It is as small as a thumb, and the size of a bumblebee when it is born.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/01\/best-bird-a-bat-tiny-flying-mammal-wins-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-competition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No stunt, say organisers, who wanted to raise awareness of the pekapeka-tou-roa, which faces the same threats as native birdsIn a huge upset to New Zealand birds, but a win for one of the country\u2019s only native land mammals, a bat has swooped in \u201cby a l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[265,41,337,65,2008,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","category-environment","category-mammals","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\/38546","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546\/revisions\/38547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}