Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/17/voter-fraud-uncovered-in-bird-of-the-year-poll.html
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Count every legal bird! Don’t count any illegal birds!
NO ILL EAGLES!!
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OK, I’m already sorry about this.
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No point having a rail about it, railing never helped, but we can chat about it. Still, at least we don’t have to swallow the false result. Thankfully there was a swift resolution, and I think the organisers can crow about their work, without which we might have had a cuckoo in the nest. 1500 false votes, eh? Probably some old coot who took up birdwatching as a hobby.
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Many of these birds are so nice, they named them twice.
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It wasn’t me! I didn’t do it! Nobody saw me & you can’t prove it anyway!
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I love how their Plain English signifiers of endangered status just make it look like some of the individual birds imaged have a stern talking to in their near future, while others are in for a lengthy grounding and long time out to think about what they’ve done:
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Don’t be such a booby
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I suppose I was being a bit of a tit. Sorry.
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Let’s not have a repeat of that time the Moa was voted off the island.
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Cuckoo: I WON THE ELECTION!!!
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Still, they are all good birds.
Was not aware that there are any bad birds.
Well, maybe pigeons.
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I really like the idea that there are birds known as “moss chickens.” It also sounds like an epithet:
“I’m tired of all these moss chickens cackling and pooping on every new idea we propose!”
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The Kakapo is a large, flightless, ground-dwelling parrot which is not a combination you see often.
Now that it has won twice, people are calling it the Glamour Chicken but as we all know, the Piwakawaka was robbed.
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Australia has the bin chicken
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Readers may remember the Kakapo from it’s famous BBC appearance:
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Of course the Kakapo must be NZ Bird of the Year. Endearing little buggers.
Across the pond in Australia Big Bird wins (though the Cassowary is better looking).
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Speaking of across the pond…the Willy Wagtail trumps the Piwakawaka in my pukapuka (book). It reminds me of the drunken master.
And that male Splendid Fairywren in springtime sure puts the common Sparrow to shame!
I do miss the wonderful birds of OZ.
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