Cast your vote for Aotearoa New Zealand’s "Bird of the Century" (and listen to dozens of bird songs while you're at it!)

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Originally published at: Cast your vote for Aotearoa New Zealand's "Bird of the Century" (and listen to dozens of bird songs while you're at it!) | Boing Boing

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Voting is now closed. By the way, due to John Oliver’s quest to select the Pūteketeke as the Bird of the Century, there was an unprecedented voting volume this year.

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I find the outside quest to push the vote in favour of one particular bird to be a bit obnoxious, really. They could have done just as much of a comedy bit by hyping up the competition in general and encouraging people to vote for cool birds.

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The Maori (the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand) had a name for Queen Elizabeth: Te Kōtuku: “the White Bird”

Those Maori are just so sassy!! :wink:

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The gammons are probably complaining that it is racist.

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