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If you ask a young New Zealander what day wellington's mayoral campaign is, he may not know.
But if you ask when New Zealand's Bird of the Year is taking place, he'll be able to say:
Every November!
How' about you vote?
Which bird was cast??
For New Zealanders, the Bird of the Year is the most important voting event besides the government election, from students to prime ministers!
(Under the little bird, there is a big pick me)
At the top, they need to use professional voting monitoring software to monitor ballots, because many people have cheated in voting just so that the bird they love can get a good ranking.
Bird of the Year was founded in 2005 by the nature conservation group Forest & Brid.
In the beginning, it was just a simple online voting campaign for New Zealanders to choose their favorite native birds, while at the same time educating people about the rarity of birds.
But gradually, the more New Zealanders play more and more seriously, the painting style becomes bizarre.
The bird that enters the campaign list begins to have its own campaign manager (cough, of course, human), the campaign manager will use all his resources to canvass for the bird, the higher the number of votes, the more glorious he is.
(Each campaign manager will be introduced on the official website)
Canvassing methods include harassing your relatives, friends and classmates with emails, making bird campaign posters, making promotional videos, and finding non-profit organizations to cooperate.
"Others will stand on the street and read poems in praise of birds and let passers-by vote." Event coordinator Kimberley Collins said in an interview with Newshub.
Reading poetry on the street is highly shameful, but it has no impact afterwards.
The strongest way to express your love for a bird is to tattoo it on yourself.
"This man's love for Ruru (an owl) is so touching! All the rest of us can do is vote, vote for Ruru! One Ruru fan wrote on Twitter.
Yes, the macho man should be equipped with a bird, and every stitch is love...
Others will use more clever ways to solicit votes, such as creating Tinder accounts for the birds they support to attract people's attention.
"Full of adventure, the black-winged sandpiper with a heart of gold wants to find... More votes! ”
You can also chat with people to solicit tickets:
Netizen: How have you been lately?
Black-winged sandpiper: Honestly, I'm pretty endangered.
Netizen: Ah, what's wrong with that?
Black-winged sandpiper: It's almost globally extinct.
Wellington boy George Hobson has been the New Zealander's campaign manager since he was 11 years old, but only won around 150 votes by a clumsy approach.
Growing up, he understood the importance of celebrity effects, so he contacted celebrity politicians and asked them to stand for the black-winged sandpiper.
Among his supporters, the most famous is Helen Clark, the former president of New Zealand and head of the United Nations development programme.
Other New Zealand politicians have also participated in the bird vote, such as former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters, who supports the Grey-backed Albatross.
The current President of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has twice supported the Black Forktail Petrel.
The New Zealand Greens have also taken a clear stand in support of the New Zealand wooden pigeon and have also issued a promotional video.
In recent years, because of the popularity of social networking sites, New Zealanders have moved their love for birds to the Internet and built accounts to solicit tickets.
In our words, this should be called... Set up a "pitching group"?
Account name: New Zealand Wood Pigeon
Synopsis: "Let's make history and vote for the wooden pigeon to be re-elected Bird of the Year!" Our Facebook X X X, our email XXX..."
Account Name: Vote for the New Zealand Fantail Bird of the Year 2020
Synopsis: "Is it a sign of death in Māori culture, or a cute little bird?" Both are me! Vote for me in Bird of the Year 2020, or donate some money. ”
Account Name: Vote for shore plover
Introduction: "Bird of the Year 2018 is coming, and we believe that the shore plover deserves people's attention!" It is one of the rarest water birds in the world. Shore Plover needs your help! ”
Account Name: Vote for the Black-fronted Tern
Description: "Soar the sky with the black-fronted tern!" Because of dogs, cars, people, and seasonal high tides, the nests on the shore are always destroyed, making them endangered. ”
The content of these pitching groups revolves around the birds, not a reminder of voting time...
It is to forward the cute photos of their own birds...
They also make bird memes.
Will sell around.
Over the past 15 years, more and more New Zealanders have participated in the Bird of the Year selection, from 900 votes in 2005 to 42,000 votes in 2019.
Voting ended on Nov. 15 this year, and so far more than 40,000 people have cast a record number of votes.
Because there are many people who pay attention, it has attracted the attention of businessmen.
The Adult Toy Megastore announced this year that it supports and advertises a honey-sucking bird called Hihi.
"Hihi is the only bird in the world that mates face-to-face and is a leader in the bird culture movement, and we salute them: Please vote for Hihi."
"Hihi are polygamous, they have intimate relationships with multiple partners, and they have consent to all partners."
"The testicles of male Hihi are 4 times larger than those of birds of the same size, which is the largest of all birds of this size! ...... How can you not vote for them? ”
ay? As if there is no reason to refuse?
It's good that people are having a lively time, but in recent years, some strange things have also happened, and that is vote cheating!
In 2015, a pair of 15-year-old twin sisters created hundreds of email addresses and cast hundreds of fake votes using their father's website domain name to vote for their beloved earwigs.
The campaign manager of the eared crow found that the number of votes had increased rapidly that night, and felt strange, and a backstage check found that the voters used the same IP address, so they found them.
The consequence of this incident was naturally that the two girls were criticized for education.
Campaign manager Oscar Thomas said they could not tolerate any fraud among fans;
Labour leader Andrew Little taunted the ear-eared crow fans, saying they undermined democracy (the Labour leader is the campaign manager of the New Zealand Falcon).
To avoid something like that, event organizers began enabling analytics software that monitors votes in the US and UK elections.
Unexpectedly, in the following years, there was more and more fraud.
In 2017, poll analysts found a surge in votes on Egret Island, with 112 votes coming from the same IP in Christchurch.
After investigating, it was found that a white-faced heron fan used a random email generator to create a bunch of fake emails with different domain names to vote.
In 2018, a year of fraud, 16 species of birds were found to have false voting problems, and one of the cormorants received more than 3,000 fake votes.
Voting fraud also occurred in 2020.
Yesterday, the organizers announced that they had spotted more than 1,500 fake votes for kiwi in an attempt to get the national bird to win the bird of the year again.
To be fair, they emptied the tickets.
Because of the fierce competition and frequent fraud, the relationship between bird fans has become very tense.
After the 2017 white-faced heron poll was fake, black-billed seagull fans were furious, and their instagram pitching group sprayed dirty, accusing the white-faced heron of being "racist".
(Eh, because, is it "white-faced"?) ）
Because it was close to the kiwi bird vote, they turned their guns on it, calling it a "fat and flightless fool."
Other birds were scolded for having no neck, as well as "wandering chickens".
There are radio stations that support the black-billed seagull's pitching team, saying that there is nothing wrong with spraying dirty, because the whole event has been dirty by fraud.
Collins, the event coordinator, was surprised by everything.
"We don't tolerate slander, but we're not surprised because, like all political activity, the annual bird race always involves all sorts of dirty tricks and tricks."
Yes, although it is only a public welfare voting competition, there is an undercurrent under the surface.
Bird of the Year winners over the past few years include the Droopy Duck (2016), the Parrot (2017), the New Zealand Wooden Pigeon (2018), and the Yellow-Eyed Penguin (2019), and it's not easy to sit on the throne (it's not easy to be a campaign manager, to be precise).
This year, I don't know if there will be more fraud,
Who will the champion spend?
ref：
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/430281/voter-fraud-caught-again-in-bird-of-the-year-competition
https://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/10/new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-adult-toy-store-endorses-polyamorous-hihi#:~:text=The%20hihi%2C%20or%20stitchbird%2C%20is,bird%20of%20the%20year%202020.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/05/new-zealands-bird-of-the-year-2019-the-most-important-election-aside-from-the-real-one
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fowl-play-all-aflutter-in-bird-of-the-year-competition/NHAL6B3VAV3S4QOT24P2AAX33M/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_the_Year
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