{"id":66766,"date":"2024-09-16T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/hoiho-penguin-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-winner"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T00:40:14","slug":"rare-smelly-penguin-wins-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66766","title":{"rendered":"Rare smelly penguin wins New Zealand bird of the year contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hoiho, which means \u2018noise shouter\u2019, triumphed in a year free from the usual scandals surrounding the competition<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s rarest penguins has been crowned New Zealand\u2019s bird of the year, in an unusually sedate year for the competition, free from the foreign interference and voting scandals of previous events.<\/p>\n<p>The endangered yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, is the largest of New Zealand\u2019s mainland penguin species and is distinctive for the pale yellow band of feathers linking the eyes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/16\/hoiho-penguin-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-winner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hoiho, which means \u2018noise shouter\u2019, triumphed in a year free from the usual scandals surrounding the competitionOne of the world\u2019s rarest penguins has been crowned New Zealand\u2019s bird of the year, in an unusually sedate year for the competition, fre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3281,"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-66766","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\/66766","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\/3281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66766\/revisions\/66767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}