{"id":41755,"date":"2022-02-16T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/16\/escaped-pet-parrots-pose-real-problem-to-native-new-zealand-birds"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:34:10","slug":"escaped-pet-parrots-pose-real-problem-to-native-new-zealand-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41755","title":{"rendered":"Escaped pet parrots pose \u2018real problem\u2019 to native New Zealand birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic birds are competing for the same food and nest space as natives and can also introduce disease<\/p>\n<p>Exotic parrots are on a non-stop flight to becoming a menace in New Zealand, as pet owners release hundreds of them into the wild each year and, in doing so, put the survival of native birds at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 6% of New Zealanders own pet birds and an average of 331 of the animals are lost each year; 92% of these are exotic parrots, mostly in the Auckland region, according to the University of Auckland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/16\/escaped-pet-parrots-pose-real-problem-to-native-new-zealand-birds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic birds are competing for the same food and nest space as natives and can also introduce diseaseExotic parrots are on a non-stop flight to becoming a menace in New Zealand, as pet owners release hundreds of them into the wild each year and, in d&#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":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/41755","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=41755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41756,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41755\/revisions\/41756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}