Looks like I’m losing followers…I wonder if it’s the Social Warrior Politics or the Birds. Or I’m a Canadian Social Bird Lover? Anyways last day to sign up for NDP membership if you live in Canada. #canadianpolitics #ndp #birdpolitics #illustration #socialillustrators

Celebrating the advent of Blue Sky video with a spoonie doing spoonie things. #VoteSpoonbill #TeamSpoonbill #BirdOfTheYear #BirdPolitics

Oh, I see the variable oystercatcher is not campaigning this year - obviously focused on family. So that vote will go to a penguin! The Kororā (little penguin) - conservation status "declining." 😔 #BirdOfTheYear #BirdPolitics
📷Duncan Watson via

www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/litt...

The takahē is so wonderfully spherical it *has* to get one of your 5 votes for #BirdOfTheYear #BirdPolitics 😆
📸Douglas Thorne (lots more great pics of our native birds on his website). douglasthorne.photo/wildlife/

Ah, the hoiho. The shy waddler with a big voice and bubble gum pink feet. Has a very special place in my heart... 😍I spotted this one in the Catlins. #BirdOfTheYear #BirdPolitics

And the takahē has to get a vote. Because it is ridiculously round and was thought to be extinct for 50 years!
Give one of your votes to the come-back kid! I met these two round rainbow dinosaurs in Zealandia... newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/24/c... #BirdPolitics

Change of plan. I have to vote for the Tōrea pango (variable oystercatcher). I mean, how can you not give one of your votes to this adult teaching her chicks how to find spaghetti? #BirdOfTheYear #BirdPolitics

Team Kakī. 👍
One of the few birds I have regularly voted for that I have not yet seen - although I hope to fix that. So wonderfully elegant. 😀 #BirdOfTheYear #BirdPolitics
📷Rob Lynch via
www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/blac...

Strongly endorse this choice for #BirdOfTheYear
The kōtuku ngutupapa (royal spoonbill) is such an elegant bird. Except for the occasional bad hair day, which only makes it more adorable! 😂 #BirdPolitics

The first day of September and it will soon be time to figure out which birds to vote for in this very special and fun election. The serious side is seeing how many are in "serious trouble" or "some trouble". #BirdPolitics
www.birdoftheyear.org.nz