{"id":74492,"date":"2025-09-29T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-2025-karearea-falcon-nz-winner"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:47:46","slug":"threatened-karearea-falcon-wins-new-zealands-2025-bird-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74492","title":{"rendered":"Threatened k\u0101rearea falcon wins New Zealand\u2019s 2025 bird of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s fastest bird has taken out the top prize in a scandal-free year for the annual poll<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s fastest bird, capable of flying 200km\/h in its pursuit of prey, has been crowned bird of the year \u2013 a long-running annual competition that has previously been a lightning rod for scandal and hijinks.<\/p>\n<p>The threatened k\u0101rearea is New Zealand\u2019s only falcon. It is small and tawny, with impressive talons and large dark eyes. K\u0101rearea are powerful aerial hunters and watch other birds, lizards or small mammals \u2013 sometimes larger than themselves \u2013 from a high vantage point before diving at high speed to snatch their prey.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-2025-karearea-falcon-nz-winner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s fastest bird has taken out the top prize in a scandal-free year for the annual pollNew Zealand\u2019s fastest bird, capable of flying 200km\/h in its pursuit of prey, has been crowned bird of the year \u2013 a long-running annual competition that ha&#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":[265,41,337,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-birds","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74492","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=74492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74493,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74492\/revisions\/74493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}