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Annual competition in New Zealand
For the poll for Australian birds or the "Bird of the Year" in Latvia, see Australian Bird of the Year and Bird of the Year in Latvia.
Bird of the YearTe Manu Rongonui o Te Tau
Incumbent
Kārearea
since 29 September 2025Term length1 yearInaugural holderTūīFormationOctober 2005Websitebirdoftheyear.org.nz
Bird of the Year (Māori: Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau
) is an annual election-based competition run by the New Zealand conservation organisation Forest & Bird to elect a New Zealand native "Bird of the Year". The competition is intended to raise awareness of the conservation threats to many endangered native birds.
It draws support from celebrities including politicians, artists, actors, and television personalities.[1] The election is a significant social media and public event in New Zealand; there are regular attempts at voter fraud, some winners (such as the short-tailed bat) have been controversial. In 2023, a TV campaign by British-American comedian John Oliver for the pūteketeke drew international attention to the contest, leading it to win with more than 290,000 votes.[2]
History[edit]
Bird of the Year (BOTY) was first launched in October 2005 by Michael Szabo, editor of Forest & Bird at the time, initially as an online poll featured in Forest & Bird's first email newsletter; votes were collected by email and through the post.[3] Szabo noticed the public outcry when RNZ considered dropping bird calls from its daily Morning Report, and decided to tap into this public interest with an annual poll.[4] The first BOTY contest included 76 native bird species and received a total of 900 votes; the tūī was the winner.[5] BOTY was later championed by Forest & Bird's communications manager Helen Bain, who saw it as a "light-hearted…way of raising the profile of native birds and the threats to them".[6]
In 2014, the competition was temporarily retitled to Seabird of the Year and only seabirds were eligible.[7] In 2023 the competition was dubbed Bird of the Century (Te Manu Rongonui o te Rautau) to coincide with Forest & Bird's centennial celebrations, and for the first time included extinct birds: laughing owl, South Island snipe, huia, South Island kōkako, and bush wren.[8]
Between 2022 and 2024, voters used the Forest & Bird website to rank their top-five choices for Bird of the Year. The winner was determined using the instant-runoff voting method.
Because of the transferable voting system, the Bird of the Year was not necessarily the species receiving the most number-one votes in those years. For example in BOTY 2022 (starting 17 October), seventy-one species were shortlisted as candidates, and the rock wren was the winner, because it received the most and highest vote rankings, despite getting fewer #1 votes than the second-place winner, the little penguin.[9]
Bird of the Year 2022 top 10
BirdNumber of #1 votesPosition
Pīwauwau / rock wren2,8941st
Kororā / little penguin3,3512nd
Kea1,8523rd
Karure / kakaruia / Chatham Island black robin1,5944th
Tawaki piki toka / rockhopper penguin1,4685th
Pīwakawaka / fantail1,2286th
Hihi / stitchbird1,3027th
Kārearea / New Zealand falcon1,2608th
Pūteketeke / Australasian crested grebe1,1849th
Titipounamu / rifleman1,47710th
Bird of the Century 2023 top 10[10]
BirdNumber of #1 votesPosition
Pūteketeke / Australasian crested grebe290,3741st
North Island Brown Kiwi12,9042nd
Kea12,0603rd
Kākāpō10,8894th
Pīwakawaka / Fantail7,8575th
Tawaki piki toka / Rockhopper penguin6,7636th
Karure / kakaruia / Chatham Island black robin6,7537th
Huia6,4678th
Tūī6,4579th
Takahē6,29210th
Bird of the Year 2024 top 10[11]
BirdNumber of #1 votesPosition
Hoiho / yellow-eyed penguin6,3281st
Karure / kakaruia / Chatham Island black robin5,4422nd
Kākāpō4,5483rd
Ruru / Morepork4,4674th
Kea4,2065th
Pīwakawaka / Fantail4,2056th
Takahē3,8927th
Tawaki piki toka / Rockhopper penguin3,8348th
Kōkako3,4459th
Toroa / Antipodean albatross3,41510th
The 2025 competition returned to a "First-Past-the-Post" FPTP system, but still with the option for voters to pick up to five birds. Each choice made is worth 1 point toward that bird's overall total.
Bird of the Year 2025 top 10[12]
BirdNumber of #1 votesPosition
Kārearea / New Zealand falcon14,3171st
Kea12,5062nd
Karure / kakaruia / Chatham Island black robin11,7263rd
Kākāpō10,7924th
Ruru / Morepork10,1745th
Tawaki piki toka / Rockhopper penguin10,0306th
Pīwakawaka / Fantail9,9157th
Takahē9,8288th
Hihi / stitchbird8,8859th
Hoiho / yellow-eyed penguin8,66510th
Bird of the Year runs for two weeks in September to November each year, and around 70 species usually compete. Anyone can nominate themselves as a "campaign manager" for a bird, and organise social media publicity campaign. The competition is not restricted to New Zealand: anyone with a valid email address is able to cast a vote, which became critical to the 2023 landslide victory of the Pūteketeke.[2]
List of winners[edit]
Bird of the year
No.
Portrait
Name
Year
Votes
% of vote
1
Tūī
2005
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20
2
Pīwakawaka
2006
458
3
Riroriro
2007
4
Kākāpō
2008
578
5
Kiwi
2009
1,586
6
Kākāriki
2010
6,921
33
7
Pūkeko
2011
1,480
8
Kārearea
2012
1,261
9
Mohua
2013
2,473
19
10
Tara-iti
2014
11
Kūaka
2015
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15
12
Kōkako
2016
3,614
18
13
Kea
2017
7,311
18
14
Kererū
2018
5,833
12
15
Hoiho
2019
12,022
28
(4)
Kākāpō
2020
10,773
20
16
Pekapeka
2021
7,031
12
17
Pīwauwau
2022
2,894
5.6
18
Pūteketeke
2023
290,374
83
(15)
Hoiho
2024
6,328
(8)
Kārearea
2025
14,317
Controversies[edit]
2008: The successful campaign to elect kākāpō was accused by the takahē of accepting undeclared donations "from wealthy migratory birds living in Monaco." It was cleared by the fictional Serious Feathered Fraud Office.[14]
2010: The kākāriki was accused of rigging the vote. Forest & Bird confirmed these concerns in 2011, committing to improving vote security.[15]
2011: The emperor penguin was added to the competition for one year, when a juvenile bird, dubbed Happy Feet, was found on the Kāpiti Coast. It had made national and international headlines after being rescued.[16][17][18]
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2015: Two teenagers from Auckland made over 200 fraudulent votes for the kōkako.[19] They used their father's business account to make fake email addresses.[20]
2017: The competition suffered a further voting scandal when 112 fraudulent votes were made for the white-faced heron using internet bots from an IP address in Christchurch.[21]
2018: An independent scrutineer from Dragonfly Data Science was brought in to prevent further voting scandals.[22] Despite this, a third voting scandal surfaced when 310 fraudulent votes were placed for the black shag. These were traced to Australia.[23][24][25]
2020: 1500 votes were placed for the little spotted kiwi using fake email addresses from the same IP address, briefly pushing it to the top of the leaderboard before the fraudulent votes were discovered.[26]
2021: The long-tailed bat was added to the competition with mixed responses from candidates and voters, who criticised the fact that it was not in fact a bird.[27] This controversial entry ended up winning 2021 Bird of the Year.[28]
2022: The kākāpō, a previous two-time winner of BOTY, was barred from competing again.[29]
2023: Television comedian John Oliver announced on his HBO show Last Week Tonight that he was the campaign manager for the Southern crested grebe or pūteketeke. Oliver erected billboards in Wellington, Paris, Tokyo, London, Mumbai, and Manitowoc, and arranged for an aeroplane with a pūteketeke banner to fly over Ipanema Beach in Brazil. He also appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show in a pūteketeke costume. So many votes were received—over 350,000, from 195 countries—that Forest & Bird's website crashed and the results of the competition had to be delayed by two days while verification was carried out.[2][30] The previous record for verified votes was 56,733 in 2021.[31] The pūteketeke won by a landslide, receiving 290,374 votes, over 100 times those of the previous year's winner, and far more than the second-placing North Island brown kiwi with 12,904.[31] The contest was also marred by fraud, with 40,000 votes cast by one person for the eastern rockhopper penguin. A Pennsylvania voter cast 3,403 fraudulent votes, with one arriving every three seconds.[31] Forty-five of the verified votes were cast under the name "John Oliver", one of them for the fairy tern, and the rest for the pūteketeke.[30] Forest & Bird claimed to be pleased by Oliver's campaign, as it furthered the contest's basic environmental awareness purpose by encouraging international attention.[32] The organisation received over $600,000 in donations, six times the previous record, as a result of the campaign.[33]
Celebrity endorsements[edit]
Year
Birds endorsed
Celebrity/organisation
2024
Hoiho
Helen Clark, Chris Hipkins, Jane Goodall,[34] Phil Keoghan[35]
2023
Pūteketeke
John Oliver[36]
2022
Wrybill
Christopher Luxon[37]
2021
Kea
Jenny-May Clarkson,[38] Kiri Allan[39]
Royal Spoonbill
David Seymour,
[citation needed] Melissa Stokes[40]
New Zealand dotterel
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand[41]
Long-tailed Bat
Radio One 91FM[42]
2020
South Island Kokako
Ruud Kleinpaste[43]
2018
Tāiko/Black Petrel
Jacinda Ardern[44]
2014
Australasian gannet
Matt Watson[7]
Brown skua
Metiria Turei[7]
Northern royal albatross
Peter Dunne[7]
Buller's shearwater[7]
Winston Peters
2013
Mōhua
Metiria Turei[45]
New Zealand fairy tern
Hayley Holt[45]
2011
Ruru/Morepork
Phil Goff[15]
Yellow-eyed penguin
Anton Oliver[15]
Kererū
Hinewehi Mohi[15]
Kōkako
Hollie Smith[15]
New Zealand robin
Lisa Chapell [15]
New Zealand fantail
Kate Wilkinson[15]
Ruru/Morepork
Maisey Rika[15]
New Zealand falcon
Pita Sharples[15]
Kea
Rachel Smalley[15]
Takahē
Riki Gooch[15]
Tūī
Russel Norman[15]
Kākāriki
Seth Haapu[15]
Wandering albatross
Steve Abel[15]
2010
Weka
Don McGlashan[46]
Black stilt
Grahame Sydney[46]
Ruru/Morepork
Jerome Chandrahasen[47]
New Zealand fantail
Taika Waititi[48]
Kererū
Kiri Te Kanawa[49]
2009
Pūkeko
Damian Christie[49]
Kākā
David Farrar[49]
Royal spoonbill
Jeremy Wells[49]
Pied stilt
Sam Hunt[49]
New Zealand fantail
Kim Hill[49]
Kererū
Kiri Te Kanawa[49]
2008
Pied stilt
Sam Hunt[50]
Tūī
Sam Morgan[50]
Yellow-eyed penguin
Anton Oliver[50]
Kererū
Barnaby Weir[50]
Tūī
Irene van Dyk[50]
Kea
Jason Gunn[50]
Grey warbler
Graeme Hill[50]
Kiwi
John Key[50]
Weka
Anand Satyanand[50]
White-faced heron[50]
Steve Braunias
Southern royal albatross
Tui De Roy[50]
Weka
Anand Satyanand[50]
Albatross[50]
Susan Satyanand
Tūī
Petra Bagust[50]
Kea
Peter Hillary[50]
2006
Kōtare/Sacred kingfisher
Annabel Langbein[1]
Ruru/Morepork
Caroline Church[1]
Kākāpō
Chris Carter[1]
Kōtuku
Don Brash[1]
Kākāpō
Helen Clark[1]
Kererū
Jeanette Fitzsimmons[1]
Kokako
Susan Satyanand[1]
New Zealand fantail
Lois Daish[1]
Tūī
Mark Sainsbury[1]
Kāhu
Pita Sharples[1]
Tūī
Rodney Hide[1]
Kiwi
Ruud Kleinpaste[1]
Weka
Anand Satyanand[1]
References[edit]
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"Bird of the Year: Pīwauwau/ rock wren crowned as 2022 winner". RNZ. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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"Penguin Happy Feet becomes a Wellington celebrity – 150 years of news". Stuff. 15 July 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
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"Bird of the Year brings in independent scrutineer to prevent voter fraud". Newshub. 10 March 2018. Archived from the original on 20 December 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
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Sadler, Rachel. "Bird of the Year's fraudulent votes make international headlines". Newshub. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
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"Native Bats Cause A Flap Entering Bird Of The Year Competition". Scoop. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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TVNZ Breakfast [@Breakfaston1] (31 October 2021). "The pekapeka-tou-roa/long-tailed bat has taken home the crown of New Zealand's 2021 Bird of the Year! @Forest_and_Bird https://t.co/UHGHz183ck" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 31 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021 – via Twitter.
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The Science Breathas [@BreathaScience] (18 October 2021). "It's that time of year again where everyone comes out and fights about which bird should be crowned bird of the year. Well the boys at Breatha Science are throwing their weight behind one of New Zealand's only Mammals - The long-tailed bat! Voting has opened, so go vote! https://t.co/7i9HhEAxcg" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021 – via Twitter.
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South Island Kōkako for Bird of the Year [@VoteSIKokako] (12 October 2020). "South Island Kōkako is proud to be supported (and seen!) by Ruud Kleinpaste, a.k.a. The Bug Man: "So this year, I'm going to ask you to vote for hope... Hope for our biodiversity, hope for our planet, and hope that the South Island Kōkako is still with us." #VoteSIK #boty2020 https://t.co/rIETRux3pX" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021 – via Twitter.
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Birds of New ZealandCommon
birds
Bellbird (korimako
)
Black-billed gull (tarāpuka
)
Brown creeper (pipipi
)
Brown teal (pāteke
)
Buff-banded rail (moho-pererū
)
Dabchick (weweia
)
Double-banded plover (pohowera
)
New Zealand falcon (kārearea
)
Fantail (pīwakawaka
)
Grey warbler (riroriro
)
Grey-faced petrel (ōi
)
Sacred kingfisher (kōtare
)
Long-tailed cuckoo (koekoeā
)
Kererū
Pipit (pīhoihoi
)
New Zealand dotterel (tūturiwhatu
)
South Island robin
North Island robin
New Zealand scaup (pāpango
)
Paradise shelduck (pūtangitangi
)
Pūkeko
Rifleman (tītipounamu
)
New Zealand rock wren (pīwauwau
)
Shining cuckoo (pīpīwharauroa
)
Silvereye (tauhou
)
South Island oystercatcher (tōrea
)
Spotted shag (pārekareka
)
Tomtit (miromiro
)
Tūī
Variable oystercatcher (tōrea pango
)
White-fronted tern (tara
)
Whitehead (pōpokotea
)
Wrybill (ngutuparore
)
Flightless
birds
Great spotted kiwi (roroa
)
Little spotted kiwi (kiwi pukupuku
)
North Island brown kiwi (roroa
)
Okarito kiwi (rowi
)
Southern brown kiwi (tokoeka
)
Yellow-eyed penguin (hoiho
)
Kākāpō
South Island takahē
Fiordland penguin (tawaki
)
Weka
Blue penguin (kororā
)
Endangered
endemic birds
(flying)
Black-fronted tern (tarapiroe
)
Black stilt (kakī
)
Blue duck (whio
)
Fernbird (mātātā
)
Foveaux shag
Kākā
Kea
North Island kōkako
South Island kōkako
New Zealand fairy tern (tara-iti
)
New Zealand king shag (kawau tūī
)
New Zealand storm petrel (takahikare
)
Northern royal albatross
Otago shag (Matapo
)
Orange-fronted parakeet (kākāriki karaka
)
Red-billed gull (tarāpunga
)
North Island saddleback (tīeke
)
South Island saddleback (tīeke
)
Shore plover (tūturuatu
)
Stitchbird (hihi
)
Yellowhead (mōhua
)
Chatham Islands
birds
Black robin (karure
)
Chatham albatross (toroa
)
Chatham gerygone
Chatham oystercatcher (tōrea
)
Chatham parakeet
Chatham petrel (ranguru
)
Chatham pigeon (parea
)
Chatham shag (papua
)
Chatham snipe
Magenta petrel (tāiko
)
Pitt shag (kawau o rangihaute
)
Subantarctic islands
birds
Antipodean albatross (Toroa
)
Auckland rail
Auckland shag
Auckland teal (tētē kākāriki
)
Antipodes parakeet
Bounty shag
Campbell albatross
Campbell shag
Campbell teal
Erect-crested penguin (tawaki nana hī
)
Reischek's parakeet
Snares snipe
Snares penguin (pokotiwha
)
Subantarctic snipe (tutukiwi
)
Extinct
birds
South Island piopio (piopio
)
New Zealand bittern (kaoriki
)
New Zealand quail (koreke
)
Huia
Haast's eagle
Moa
North Island adzebill
South Island adzebill
Auckland Island merganser (rakiraki maungahuka
)
Chatham Island merganser
Bushwren (mātuhituhi
)
Long-billed wren
South Island stout-legged wren
North Island stout-legged wren
Lyall's wren
Chatham kākā
Laughing owl (whēkau
)
Chatham penguin
Waitaha penguin
Eyles' harrier (kērangi
)
North Island little spotted kiwi
North Island snipe
South Island snipe
Forbes's snipe
Snipe-rail
Imber's petrel
Scarlett's shearwater (ōiruki
)
North Island takahē (moho
)
New Zealand goose
Finsch's duck (manutahora
)
New Zealand owlet-nightjar (ruru hinapō
)
New Zealand musk duck
New Zealand stiff-tailed duck
New Zealand swan (poūwa
)
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