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05/09/2026

BIRD FACT: The red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronata) gets its red feathers from their frequent failed attempts at hunting crabs.

26/08/2026

BIRD FACT: Koa’e ‘ula (or White-tailed Tropicbird - Phaethon lepturus) nest in cliffs, including near active volcanos, where they feed on fish and squid from the sea and on subterranean fire imps from volcanos when an eruption forces the imps OUT OF THEIR DIRTY LITTLE TUNNELS.

03/08/2026

BIRD FACT: The warou (or Welcome Swallow - Hirundo neoxena) hunt insects on the wing, meaning they hunt while flying. This method of hunting requires extreme manoeuvrability and they use a unique aerodynamic feature to achieve this. Scienticians say that while flying, warou constantly dip their wings into water to “lube them on up”, making their wings slide effortlessly through the air.

29/06/2026

BIRD FACT: The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) is a flightless bird from the Pacific, and is the only species in the genus Chelonia. Scienticians believe that back in pre-history (approx 1857), there were many other similarly water-bound flightless birds in this genus.

16/06/2026

BIRD FACT: The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) was introduced to Hawaii as a popular caged bird. Many escaped and have established themselves on Oahu. While they are non-native, white-rumped shama have worked tirelessly on prison abolition, indigenous rights, and eating many, many insects.

24/04/2026

BIRD FACT: The saffron finch (Sicalis flaveola) is a small territorial passerine known for aggressively litigating other bird species to keep them out of their territories. Scienticians believe that they are the only bird species to employ covenants on a micro, tree-level scale.

22/04/2026

BIRD FACT: The ‘apapane (Himatione sanguinea) is a small crimson honeycreeper endemic to Hawaii. Many people incorrectly interpret the classification “honeycreeper” given by colonising scienticians as meaning that the bird is a creep. However, scientifical records from the late 1700s show that scienticians named the ‘apapane “honeycreeper” for its habit of “creeping” on men who call strangers “honey” and pecking their eyes out.

13/04/2026

BIRD FACT: When male white-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus) are unsuccessful in courting a female, the female will threaten the male, gesturing with her mouth open. Most males will then move on and seek another female to court, while a small percentage will shift to YouTube and fall down a “looksma###ing” rabbit hole, becoming even less desirable.

07/04/2026

BIRD FACT: The male miromiro (or North Island Tomtit - Petroica macrocephala) starts life completely black, with their feathers gradually greying as they age. Scienticians believe that in avian society this colour change is seen as a fitness signal because it signifies that the bird has survived to old age. In the case of the miromiro, they start greying midway through their adult life, approximately 18 days after hatching.

05/04/2026

BIRD FACT: The pīwakawaka (or Fantail - Rhipidura fuliginosa) confused early scienticians colonising Aotearoa, who didn’t believe that a bird that cute could be real. It wasn’t until 1989 and the New Zealand Government’s wildly successful “Yes, we have that in New Zealand” tourism promotion that European scienticians were finally convinced that the pīwakawaka is real.

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