Kārearea in kayfabe heel turn

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577709/bird-of-the-year-karearea-turns-on-wellington-walkers

#BOTY2025 #NewZealand

The Australian Bird of the Year 2025 has been announced!

Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth! A beautiful bird and a well deserved winner.

There aren't many coins featuring the bird, one in fact - and it came out just this year - the 5c piece in the Aussie Bubs set from the Royal Australian Mint features a cartoonish representation of the bird. Pictured is the coin - courtesy https://en.numista.com/464491

And the bird, from the Guardian article where you can learn more about the contest and this year's short-listed birds: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/oct/16/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-winner-announcement-live

#Bird #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOf2025 #News #Poll #Winner #BirdOfTheYear #BOTY2025 #Numismatics #Numismatic #Coin #CoinCollecting

RE: https://aus.social/@spacelizard/115325256658061903

A reminder to keep voting #TeamBinChicken because the bottom 5 birds get eliminated at the end of each day until the final round of voting on the 15th of October.

#BOTY #BOTY2025

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote early, vote often!

#TeamBinChicken #boty2025 #BOTY

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

The Little One has made their decision for this year's #birdOfTheYear #BOTY2025

Picked them "because some are cool and some are cute."

And, in a nice coincidence with #MaoriLanguageWeek, all of the names written in Te Reo.

Ps. I wish the human candidates for the upcoming local elections had a third of the charisma on display at Bird of the Year. 🐦 🦉 🐧

#NZPol #ForestAndBird #parenting #TeWikiOTeReoMaori

🚨GIANT SPRINGTAIL COLOURING CONTEST!🚨

Lily Duval has created this wonderful colouring page -
I want you to fill it with your wildest colour schemes and post it with the hashtag #TeamGiantSpringtail.

The best one (as judged by me) will win a free giant springtail photo print! No age categories - young or old, just have a go!

You can vote for the giant springtail to win Bug of the Year 2025, and download the colouring-in page file here: https://bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/2025-bug-of-the-year-nominees/giant-springtail/

Contest closing date will be 31st Jan.

#Entomology #BotY2025 #BotY #Collembola #SoilBiodiversity