{"id":44761,"date":"2022-05-24T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/i-thought-i-was-imagining-things-new-zealand-readers-on-close-encounters-with-city-birds"},"modified":"2022-05-24T05:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T20:00:44","slug":"i-thought-i-was-imagining-things-new-zealand-readers-on-close-encounters-with-city-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44761","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I was imagining things\u2019: New Zealand readers on close encounters with city birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Native birds are increasingly taking advantage of restored urban forests \u2013 to the delight of city dwellers<\/p>\n<p>Urban forests are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/20\/urban-forests-create-birdlife-boom-in-new-zealands-cities\">attracting native birds back to New Zealand\u2019s cities<\/a>, helping residents foster a deeper connection with their feathery friends, and develop a greater interest in their protection.<\/p>\n<p>New research published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/1365-2656.13700\">Journal of Animal Ecology<\/a> found that restoring native forest in cities does indeed bring back native birds, while a Wellington council report in April 2021 found that Zealandia \u2013 a 225 hectare urban eco-sanctuary 10 minutes from the city centre \u2013 was \u201chaving a measurable \u2018halo\u2019 effect on native forest bird communities throughout the city\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/i-thought-i-was-imagining-things-new-zealand-readers-on-close-encounters-with-city-birds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native birds are increasingly taking advantage of restored urban forests \u2013 to the delight of city dwellersUrban forests are attracting native birds back to New Zealand\u2019s cities, helping residents foster a deeper connection with their feathery friends, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3085,"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":[41,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","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\/44761","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\/3085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44761\/revisions\/44762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}