Wokeness refuses to die, though there is no straight white male robin, forest and bird would probably let it go extinct.Thanks for voting, a record turnout, somehow.https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/1479437/record-number-of-votes-cast-in-2026-bird-of-the-year-competitionhttps://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/1485423/black-robin-bucks-shy-tag-to-take-bird-of-the-year-2026
>>543065884Nice.The Australian Bird of The Year is currently the Tawny Frogmouth (picrel).I've never seen one in the wild, and they kinda frighten me.
>>543065884Feel good story. Thx for posting
>>543066119ive seen one it was quite amazing that i was able to even notice it
>>543065884Looks like an angry motherfucker who could bring his species back just out of spite.Good job, bird-bro.
>>543065884he cute
>they're all descended from a single breeding pairare they hideously deformed
>>543065884Black robin - native to New ZelandBlack robbin' - native to United States
>>543067739According to wikipedia:>All of the surviving black robins are descended from "Old Blue", giving little genetic variation among the population and creating the most extreme population bottleneck possible. However, this does not seem to have caused inbreeding problems, leading to speculation that the species has passed through several such population reductions in its evolutionary past, and has lost any alleles that could cause deleterious inbreeding effects.[10][11] It was generally assumed that the minimum viable population protecting from inbreeding depression was around 50 individuals, but this is now known to be an inexact average, with the actual numbers being below 10 in rapidly reproducing small-island species, such as the black robin, to several hundred in long-lived continental species with a wide distribution (such as elephants or tigers).[12][13]TL;DR due to living on a small island they've always had a low population and been more vulnerable to near-extinction, so they may have gone through that in the past and the genes that lead to inbreeding fuck ups have been filtered out already.
Kakapo is the most based NZ bird.https://youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY?si=XHnQYU0WVeGpOgiJ
>>543066119Kek
>>543067966cute girl
>>543067882Underrated
>>543067920very interesting
>>543067882Kek carlos!!!
