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Meet The Kereru! “Glamorous, greedy, and getting so hammered that it falls out of trees. No, we’re not talking about your last night out. Honest. This is the daily life of a bird that has been crowned as the best in New Zealand. You might not have heard of the kereru, a type of pigeon native to the country, but it has finally received the recognition that its boisterous personality deserves – it has been named New Zealand’s Bird of the Year. The successful kereru campaign was largely based off the bird’s fondness for getting drunk by eating fermented fruit. Girls get photo of a lifetime with smiling Harry and Meghan in the background This has led to them falling from trees, while wildlife centre workers have been known to scoop up drunk kereru and help them sober up. Making its case, the official Team Kereru campaign said: ‘Clumsy, drunk, gluttonous and glamorous, the kereru exudes a charming ennui that’s a nice counterpoint to the industrious verve commonly observed in the bird world.’ Forest and Bird, an organisation that protects New Zealand’s exotic wildlife, runs the annual Bird of the Year competition, which attracted a record 48,000 votes” . This is from The Guardian via MetroUK. . #DrunkPigeon #Kereru #NewZealand #FermentedFruit #Unusual https://www.instagram.com/p/B4MKJpjl7a2/?igshid=1bs4kvojc02k0

Meet The Kereru! “Glamorous, greedy, and getting so hammered that it falls out of trees. No, we’re not talking about your last night out. Honest. This is the daily life of a bird that has been crowned as the best in New Zealand. You might not have heard of the kereru, a type of pigeon native to the country, but it has finally received the recognition that its boisterous personality deserves – it has been named New Zealand’s Bird of the Year. The successful kereru campaign was largely based off the bird’s fondness for getting drunk by eating fermented fruit. Girls get photo of a lifetime with smiling Harry and Meghan in the background This has led to them falling from trees, while wildlife centre workers have been known to scoop up drunk kereru and help them sober up. Making its case, the official Team Kereru campaign said: ‘Clumsy, drunk, gluttonous and glamorous, the kereru exudes a charming ennui that’s a nice counterpoint to the industrious verve commonly observed in the bird world.’ Forest and Bird, an organisation that protects New Zealand’s exotic wildlife, runs the annual Bird of the Year competition, which attracted a record 48,000 votes” . This is from MetroUK. . #DrunkPigeon #Kereru #NewZealand #FermentedFruit #Unusual https://www.instagram.com/p/BpeO0ithqxs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lrwyk5gw4hu0