ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Native Bird Week!

Episode Date: November 9, 2023

On this FOTD(OTW), Vaughan soars to new heights with a plethora of Native Bird Facts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Hello and welcome to Fact of the Day of the Week. This week, Vaughn gracefully swoops through a handful of native bird facts. It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, day. Day, day. What's up? Birdoftheyear.org.nz is where you can go to put your vote on bird of the century.

It's too hard this year, man. There's some beautiful birds in there. We've got some beautiful birds. The kitadu is my favourite bird, but I can't. But it's one. Well, two flew over my house at the weekend whilst outside on the lawn, and you heard them coming. Yeah, good stuff. Oh, I love it.

They're the fatties. Fat, big breasts. How are they flying? They're such big honkers. Always, every year there's controversy. Remember the Russians trying to rig it one year? Yeah. Remember that?

The bots, the Russian bots. Well, it's exciting, and it's an election everyone can get behind, and so I've got bird facts all week. Right. Should we do something silly like make the seagull win? Oh, my God. There's seagulls on it. I think there's one or two special seagulls.

Is it the black-billed gull that's the rarest seagull in the world? No, I mean the normal seagulls. Just like a bait, like fish and chip seagull. Yeah, the fish and chip. And they stand on one leg to make you feel sorry for them, but then they put the leg down and you're like, damn it. Yeah, you've actually got two legs. You've actually got two.

Right. Give my chip back. You liar. Pry it out of its mouth. Yeah. I was only giving it to you because I thought you had one leg. I know. I felt sorry for you and now you've got two.

So explain to me, we've got the Tarapuka, which is the black-billed gull, and the Tarapunga, which is the red-billed gull. The black-billed, serious trouble. The red-billed, in some trouble. They're bloody everywhere. What's the one that's not then? Just the beach one. Yeah, just

the normal beach one. Those are the beach ones. What's a beach seagull? What about a chicken? What if we got a chicken to it? That'd be fun. But it's not a native chicken. We'd need a native chicken. Do we not have a native chicken? Nah, we don't have a native chicken. Lame. We don't have a native chicken.

They could be endemic where we release them and they kind of make themselves at home over the next century. I don't know. The black-billed gull is the main one. Okay. Yeah. Southern black-billed gull. Well, today's fact of the day is about the kiwi.

Okay. Probably the most iconic bird. And if you were going to talk about bird of the century, it fact of the day is about the kiwi. Okay. Probably the most iconic bird. And like if you were going to talk about bird of the century, it'd be hard to go past the kiwi. Yeah, because it's our icon, isn't it? But it's our icon. It's our icon. It's embarrassing though.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Well. What do you do? We don't even see you. You never come out. You never go to parties anymore. It's like an anxious Gen Z.

Yeah, it is. It's all good. Let it go. Let him be at home. Yeah, it is. Just like, hey, no, I'm good. Let it go. Let him be at home. The fact is the kiwi have the smallest beaks in the world. Wait, but they're really long. No, but the beak is only that little end bit or it's not the bit. Or the beak's inside it. That's not its beak.

They walked right into my trap. I'm trapped. I'm trapped. I'm a pest. I'm a pest. I'm a pest. I've been trapped. Technically, you measure a bird's beak lengthwise from nostril to the end of the beak. Oh, that's like starting under the balls.

Yeah. To give it an extra inch. But this would be like the kiwi. No, you would start at the balls, but it's like the kiwi have the balls on the end because their nostrils are on the end of their beak and they're the only bird in the world that's got it. They've got the nostrils on the end of the beak so they can stick it in and then sniff like, it's like under there, in the ground.

Like an anteater. But other birds with a long beak have the nostrils at the top. They've got them at the top. It always sits at the skull, whereas kiwis have the nostrils at the end of the beak. Technically, and that's how you measure a beak, technically. Right. So the Kiwis actually have the shortest beaks in the world.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have the nostrils at the top for water and stuff? Yeah, how are they drinking? And they're stuck in their beak into things. But then they still have to snort it all the way up the beak. Before it became a problem. They could dip it in, no worries. Yeah, right. It's just that we've got such short noses.

Once the water's in, it's more or less in the sinus, isn't it? This seems like a lot to clog up. Give it one of those afterwards. Yeah. They actually famously will put one claw up to one side like rugby players and go, and then the other side as well. So that's why New Zealanders do that.

That's why we do that is because we learnt it off the Kiwi bird. If they wanted to pick their nose... That's why New Zealanders do that. That's why we do that is because we learnt it off the Kiwi bird. If they wanted to pick their nose, they've got to go like that. Right on to the end, yeah. Their little paws. Yeah, their hard reach. But yeah, if they wanted to pick their nose...

I don't think they could. Short legs. So yeah, so they can stick their nose in the dirt and once it's in the dirt, find the grub, which way the grub is. Tremendous sense of smell. Yeah.

So there's one. You'll have them on a technicality because you'll say smallest beak in the world and then everyone will be like, no, it's really long. And you'll be like, ha! That would be a good question for a pub quiz. Yes. Because that would really roll the table up, that kind of question. Oh, my God, yeah.

Although it would seem too obvious at a pub quiz. Yeah. If they were like, does the kiwi bird have the longest or shortest beak in the world? You'd be like, it's too obviously long. There must be a loophole. Yeah, but then Janice from accounts would be like,

of course it's Janice. It's a trick question. It's a double, yeah. And she gets everyone on board and then... Good old Janice. There's always a Janice at the pub quiz.

There's always a Janice at the pub quiz. Shut up, Janice. So today's Fact of the Day and the first for Native Bird Week here at Fact of the Day is the Kiwi technically, technically,

the Kiwi have the smallest beaks in the world. Today's Fact of the Day is about the albatross because it's Bird Week here because you can vote at birdoftheyear.org.nz for your favourite bird. Okay. God, I love the albatross because it's bird week here because you can vote at birdoftheyear.org.nz for your favourite bird. Okay. God, I love the albatross. What a bird.

The wingspan. What a... The wingspan on this guy. Up to 3.7 metres long. That's wild. I went to the albatross sanctuary in Dunedin.

So good. Yeah. Does it stink? I don't believe it's pronounced like that i think it's done a dune done again i've been always saying dunedin dunedin so yeah that's one of the nesting spots of the albatross just out of uh dunedin beautiful spot and they're clumsy and it's real funny when the wind's blowing they're trying to learn to fly and they're just like rolling down the hill yeah uh so i've got a few things about the albatross. Okay.

The albatross. And the whales, they are my brothers. That's a terrible reference to a lyric that no one will know. I've got absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Is it a sea shanty? It's so old. Sea shanty? She's going on a bit of sea shanties again. Yeah, she's on a sea shanty bus.

Because I got my albatross fact that I'm going to get to. Okay. But then I was like, why is it called the albatross? It's one of those names you need a question. It's named after Jessica Alba. Yes. You can fit one Jessica Alba on each wing. And tross.

Unos dross. Albatross. Albatross. Albatross. One Jessica Alba on each wing. You can fit tross Albas on the Albatross. Unos dross. Tres. Cuatro. Cinco, Cinco, Seis.

Please don't mess with the Spanish language. I wouldn't. So Albatross is derived from an Arabic word, Al-Qaeda, which I know treads a little closer to the sun, doesn't it? Al-Qaeda, which means the diver, which is what the Arabic term for pelican was. Oh, okay. Which then travelled to English via Portuguese,

and the Portuguese used the word Alcatraz for the island, for the gannet. And the reason Alcatraz, the island in San Francisco, is called that is because it was a gannet colony like we've got in West Auckland. Right. At Motowai Beach and down Hawke's Bay on the cliffs of Hawke's Bay. We went to that one. Stunk. Smelly, man.

Smelly. The kids are always like, can we go up when we go to Motowai? Can we go up and have a look? I'm like, do you remember what it smelt like last time? And I don't even know if they're home. Did they stink? Dude. Well, there's that many birds in one spot.

Oh, God. Did you ever smell a chicken shed when they opened the doors? Yes. That, but a little more wild. So then it travelled from Alcatraz to Albatross because of Albus in Latin meaning white, because it was a whiter bird. Okay, so nothing to do with Jessica Alba at all.

Zero to do with Jessica Alba. Her whole life has been a lie. I know. It's insane. And it turns out you can't even put Tros Alba's on there. What? It's unbelievable. It couldn't even carry Uno Alba.

Not, but certainly not Tros. Certainly not Tros Alba. So that's why it's called an Albatross. Right. Here's today's fact of the day. Global warming is leading to higher rates of Albatross divorce. Oh no. See, this sounds familiar.

Research has discovered with unusually warmer water temperatures, rates of albatross divorce. Oh no. See if this sounds familiar. Research has discovered with unusually warm water temperatures divorce rates soared between 1 and 3 percent because they stay together forever by the way, the albatross. Mate for life. Mate for life. For life for life until one dies. To as high as 8 percent

which is very high for them but nowhere nearly as bad as humans which are currently about 40 percent. Now we're 51% divorce. No, that's a misnomer. You're the minority. No, that's because they take the amount of weddings that happen a year and then take the amount of divorces, but all of the divorces are from previous years included,

so it only compares to the modern year. Ah, yeah, got you. So it's not quite, but 40% of marriages end in separation or divorce in humans. Up to 8%. Because increasingly warmer waters in the poles mean less fish and nutrients for the albatross to consume during foraging trips. In turn, forcing the birds to travel farther to find food. I would say. And then they cheat with another albatross.

The longer journeys, which can span up to 3,000 kilometres or more, may be critical for survival, but they don't always bode well for the relationship. They can trigger stress hormones that interfere with mating and leave birds with less energy to raise chicks when breeding is successful. So when they come home,

you're like, shall we? They're working. I'm too tired. They're working harder. They're working longer for less. They're away. The stress involved in that, they're tired when they get home.

They've got the stress of raising children. And it affects just like us. Yeah. Just like us. You and me, baby, ain't nothing but... Albatross. Albatrosses. Yeah.

Albatrosses. So today's fact of the day is global warming, warmer seas, bad for the albatross marriage rate. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley rate Bird of the Century is happening It's been happening since 2005 We've experienced much international interference Remember when the Russians got involved? Yep

The bots And now John Oliver's involved I mean, I love this Huge John Oliver fan Same This is the one show I missed during the writers' strike It's on Neon It's weekly Yep It's on Neon. It's weekly.

Yep. It's an HBO show. Last week, Tonight takes a look at kind of what's happening week to week, but also like a big issue every week. Yeah. And, I mean, there's a lot of bad news going around at the moment. And so he dedicated a good part of his show to getting behind the puteke teke. Which I'd never even heard of.

Neither. I thought it was when I saw that he was backing it, I was like, has he made up a bird and said, oh, this is the bird you want to do the write-in votes for, for bird of the century. But no, it is. It's a glebe. It's an Australasian crescent glebe.

What did he say it looked like? Grebe. Grebe. He compared it to something. I can't remember. It's like a swan mated with a seagull head. And there's a mullet. And there's a mullet.

Endangered around the world. Yeah. Because they were hunted for their feathers and stuff. So he encouraged all of his viewers to vote. And I believe it nearly... What did they say? Bird of the East said it nearly crashed the website, but they did well to...

Yeah. Because they knew it was coming. Advertised around the world. It's a really... If you can watch the episode, if you've got neon, watch the episode. So good. Just because it's so fun to see New Zealand voices.

Yes. On American Star. So much of it. So Bird of the Year. They think we're dinky. They think we're dinky. We are dinky. We are dinky.

That's a great... I love dinky. Also, that's a great international reputation to have. Yeah. No one... Cute and dinky. They think we're dinky. We are dinky. We are dinky. That's a great international reputation to have. Yeah. Cute and dinky. Yeah. I don't want to be dangerous and volatile. I'd rather be cute and dinky.

Fair call. So today's fact of the day isn't about the Puteke-teke. It's about the gannet. Oh, yeah. Love a gannet. Which is in running for bird of the year as it has been. It's number one. We went to that gannet colony.

We did. We did. Gannet colony. We did. We did. Gannet colony. In Hawke's Bay. There's one out west in West Auckland, Motowai Beach. You can walk up the hill and see that. Stanky, though. I would say that a lot of smelly poo.

Yeah. Those colonies. Is that? Yeah. So today's fact of the day is about the Gannet. If you've ever seen a Gannet colony fishing, it is a sight to behold. They will dive headfirst into the sea from a height of 30 metres. Doesn't that hurt their little tiny head?

So that's what today's fact of the day is. It's about how they've evolved to be able to do that. Dive headfirst from 30 metres straight into the ocean while, you know, being able to see and chase their prey. So today's fact of the day is that gannets have no external nostrils. A gannet's nostrils are inside its mouth. It's stupid to have to go like that to breathe in. They've only got one way to breathe. They have to open their mouth to breathe.

If you're opening your mouth to breathe, you might as well breathe out the mouth. That'd be so handy when you're doing a bomb or jumping into water. Because if it had any form of external nostrils, when it hits the water, its head and body, by the way, if you've ever seen it in dive formation, is like perfect. Yeah. To hit the water. It just pierces the water.

But it could have nostrils anywhere on the exterior. Water would be forced in there so hard that it would do damage. Put them near the bum. Here's the other coolest thing about it. When they're diving, they go and fill up some air sacs in their face and in their chest, just under their skin. So effectively, they're putting

a helmet. Imagine how cool that would be if we were about to get punched in the face and you can go and fill up some airbags so someone would hurt you and it wouldn't hurt as much. It protects the vitals. Like a little inflatable. It's so interesting. And their eyes.

Airbags. Also, their eyes are right above their beak. They're very forward facing, which means that it allows them to keep an eye on the prey as they're diving and it's moving exactly when they hit the water, what angle they're going to have to turn to get the fish. Isn't that neat? That's neat. Hell of a striper, right? But what if they're going to have to turn to get the fish. Isn't that neat? That's neat. Hell of a striper, right?

But what if they're having a drink and it goes down the nostrils? Because where are the nostrils in the mouth? Yeah, that's a really good call, actually. Surely they're on the top, right, so that the water's going down the bottom. Maybe these are straw. Our nostrils are on the outside, but sometimes when we're having a drink, it goes down the wrong pipe. And it gets in your sort of pipe system.

Probably the coffin. The coffin and everything. They're cool. They're all around the world. They travel a really, really long way. It's still not my bit of the year, though. It hasn't helped. I'm still on the side.

And it's hard. They're all fantastic choices. The ketidu is my favourite. I think for century, I'm going to go ketidu. Yeah, because they're great. A little fat podgy. Yeah, I know. Does it show the current voting?

Because apparently... Well, last year's one won with. Yeah, I know. Does it show the current voting? Because apparently... Well, last year's one won with nearly 3,000 votes. It's because the votes are spread so far and wide. Yeah. Yeah, everybody gets a few votes. Well, vote. Vote for the Bird of the Year. You've got to vote.

It is our right to vote. Oh my God, it's the democratic right. It's our democratic right. Otherwise, David Seymour will end up Bird of the Year. We don't want that. Oh no! That's what happens. Yeah, that Oh, no! That's what happens. Yeah, that's what happens.

That's what happens. So today's fact of the day is the gannet has adapted itself for diving by having no external nostrils and basically being able to bubble wrap its brain when it hits the water going a million miles an hour. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey. Play ZM. today's fact of the day it's bird week because it's

bird of the century voting time voting closes at the end of this week so if you want to vote for one and again I'm really struggling to decide which

one of these beautiful one of our native birds I'll vote for I see the tide kind of turned on John Oliver the US talk show comedian who... As New Zealanders only could.

We're getting attention internationally for something that we should be proud of and we're like, stay the hell out of it. Yeah, who do you think you are? You're not funny. Yeah, I saw that second-rate comedian and I was just like, calm down. Yeah, like literally this has gone global.

The very people running the election are stoked on the exposure. Oh, 100%. Can I start with some great news? Absolutely. Predator Free Wellington have said they have successfully eliminated rats, stoats and weasels from the Midamar Peninsula. Well, that's lovely, isn't it?

I belong to Pest Free Kumu. Yeah. Which is where I live. And I've got traps and I report my killings of pests. Do you? Yeah. Peninsula, a great place to start. Right, yeah.

Because it's a one-way-in, one-way-out situation. And they've set all their traps and stuff. For all their indicators, they've successfully eliminated rat stoats and weasels from Miramar Peninsula. So, stoked for you guys. Well done. Great stuff. Today's fact of the day is about the rediscovery of the takahe, which is a big, fat puke echo, basically.

Big fatty. So these used to be spread all over New Zealand and then went through a very large time where everybody believed them to be extinct. The last one, and this is reading the story of the last few, it was all dogs, like somebody was hunting deer and then their dog dragged out a takahe and they're like, oh, no. One guy was quoted to have said, I tried to resuscitate it to the best of my abilities.

One of the hunters whose dog killed one of the final takahe. Kind of just make a seal around its beak and just go... Mouth to mouth it? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But anyway, in 1948, some footprints were discovered around Te Anau and some mud. And people were like, these are too big.

These are unknown. This must be what we believe to have been the extinct Takahe. So there was an exploration up into the mountains where they found a small colony of Takahe. And is that why we've still got them? This is why we've still got them, and they all came from only a few breeding pair. Now, the idea was to get them back to 100,

get them back to 500. Yeah. So when they rediscovered them and there was a breeding program in place, the population stood at 263 in 2013. And they said, we've got to get this back to 500. This year, 2023, the population is 500. So we took... So we don't need to worry now?

No, we still need to worry. We still need to look after them. Okay. We're still very much endangered. That's a bird you can vote for. It's a success story of a bird that was believed to be extinct, found not to be, and now due to conservation efforts has been...

And it's one of our good-looking ones, isn't it? It's a big... It looks fake. I said I saw one when we were in town last year. They don't look like real birds. They look like Weta Workshop animatronics. Love. Big, fat, and apparently

delicious. Hence why they were so low in numbers. And yeah, okay, right. Well, don't tell people they're delicious. No, no, no. We'll lose the 500.

We'll be back to... But then that was the story. Apparently, they were all over the South Island and there was even a North Island takahē. Oh, okay.

And then the first Māori and Polynesian travellers arrived and started settling in New Zealand. Numbers dwindled. Yeah. Because they were apparently quite fast, but very large so you could hit them when you were hunting them quite easily. And then Europeans arrived and were just like,

those look yum. And local chiefs were like, don't tell anybody about no bloody good and delicious. Yeah, KFT. Yeah. So then, yeah, they were kind of eaten to the point of extinction. And then hunted by dogs and the like. Okay.

But anyway, we're bringing them back. So congratulations to the Takahei. Today's fact of the day is the Takahei was thought extinct for about 50 or 60 years until rediscovered. And now there's up to 500. Today's fact of the Day in the final Bird of the Century week. I'm loving this. I'm just so torn, though, that your Fact of the Day week has not... Have you?

Yeah. What's going to be your Bird of the Century? It's the bird that we will be looking at in today's Fact of the Day. Okay. It's also won two times before. So I think it's one. Nope. That's only won once, I believe.

The Ketidu. Let me just confirm that. 2018 was the year of the Ketidu. My vote is for the 2020 champion and also the 2008 champion. No, 2020 is too recent, hon. He can't win again. But it is the bird of the century. We're not voting for the bird yet.

It is the kakapo. The kakapo rules. The kakapo rules, and that's why I will be voting for it. And here's some facts about the beautiful kakapo. Now, is this the one that gets your windscreen wipers when you park? No, that's a Kia. That's the Kia. Same-ish colour, is this the one that gets your windscreen wipers when you park up? No, that's a kea. That's the kea. Same-ish colour, but this one can't fly.

Classic Kiwi bird. Classic. It's the only flightless parrot because it fits into the genus of parrots. It is, by all but its inability to fly, a parrot. Is that because it's too heavy and it's got short wings? Well, it's just evolved to be. And it is,

it's one of the only birds that can store energy as fat. Oh. So it like eats, eats, eats. Well, I can do that. I'm a bird. I'm a bird. Technically, I'm a couple of birds

who can store energy as fat. Couple of birds here ready for hibernation. I'm ready. Couple of, got a little storage of energy right on the front here. Couple a little bit higher. Yeah. Little couple of saddlebags on the side here. I'm ready to go a little storage of energy right on the front here. Couple a little bit higher.

Yeah. A couple of saddlebags on the side here. I'm ready to go, baby. I've got energy stored. Now, mate, flip me over. Look behind. I'm ready for a year. Unfortunately, I can't.

I'm not stacking it in the back. Yeah. So many amazing things about this bird. It's one of the longest living birds and can naturally live to over 90 years old. Oh, wow. Shut up. Yeah. Shut up. Shut up. Shut your silly mouth. They are about 60 centimetres tall, so they're bigger than I thought they were.

And also weigh up to four and a half kgs. That's massive. Which is massive and very heavy for a bird, but that's why they can't fly. Well, hence why I can't even get off the ground. It's like, you know, overloading a plane that has crashed at the end of a runway.

Yeah. They don't even, they don't even intend to take off. It's like if your plane just crawled. You were in a plane on the motorway. How are they even still around if they can't fly?

Surely the predators gnaw them up. Not only the fact that they, well, they were nearly eliminated. They were one of our other success stories. While still critically endangered, they were literally on. They were one of our other success stories. While still critically endangered,

they were literally on the verge of extinction and a breeding program because- They were tasty? Tasty to predators. Yeah. Friendly. Oh. Like they're friendly birds.

Yep, okay. And when they freak out, they stand still. Like a chicken. Look at their camouflage. Yeah, they freak and they go, and they try to camouflage. And they smell nice. Do they?

Like what? What do they smell like? They've got a really well-developed sense of smell that they try to camouflage. And they smell nice. Do they? What do they smell like? They've got a really well-developed sense of smell that they use for mating. And so they smell, have this nice, musky, musty, sweet odor. So other kakapo can smell them. But also, unfortunately, when rats and dogs and cats arrive, they could also smell them from a mile off. Is it like a lush snow fairy?

Because that's a good one. That's a good smell. No, it's more musty. Musty. Musty, sweet. Okay. Probably like one of those nice ones, like those cigar and sandalwood candles.

Yeah, yeah. Sort of the more masculine smelling candle. Here's the coolest part about the kakapo. Is this what secured your vote? This is what secured it. During the breeding season, male kakapo will walk up to eight kilometres to reach

a special arena where they compete against each other for the attention of females. Like the gladiator. A cross between gladiator and the bachelorette. Okay, great. She rocks up. The male digs a bowl in the

ground. Not a hole. A bowl. Yep. Like an arena. Is this the arena? This is the arena. He digs a shallow hole, a bowl, next to rock faces because he is about to start making his mating call.

Oh, yeah. I love it when they set the stage. Oh, and it echoes. And it echoes off the rock faces. So the reason they go to this special- When you put your phone in a glass. Yeah. Because you don't have a speaker. When you finish your chips, you put your phone in a glass. Yeah. Because you don't have a speaker.

When you finish your chips, you put your phone in the chip hole. And then we all enjoy the music. So they evolved to always go to the breeding arena because of this rock face that can bounce, bounce their sound out far and wide and attract the honeys. We should give them a Huey boom.

Dude, yeah. And a little microphone. Or one of those spooky microphones. A little microphone. Yeah, the little karaoke mic. Welcome to JB Hi-Fi. We've got a big special on today. Come on in.

Buy CDs. What? You guys don't buy CDs anymore. Why do we stock so many CDs? JB Hi-Fi. Wow. So they'll go, they do booms. I've got the boom to play for you as well.

And then they will change to a more high-pitched metallic chinging. And they'll go for eight hours a night. A yo ching, yeah. Eight hours a night. Hold on. Let me... I've got a million tabs open. I'm very excited about the kakapo.

Okay. You could be selling me on this, by the way. You're fighting for a vote here, Vaughan. There's a boom. That's his boom. I know. It sounds like you left your phone on the bench and it's vibrating.

And you know how sometimes you hear the vibrate from miles away. It's that low bassy tone. That's the thing why all those kakapos are turning up at my apartment because I left my phone on the bench and it's vibrating. And you know how sometimes you hear the vibrate from miles away? It's that low bassy tone. Kakapo's turning up at my apartment because I left my phone on the bench. When you're snoozing in the morning it's going and the kakapo are like I believe we're about to start hearing the chinging.

In your own time. Rangi. Oh yeah. He's got range He's got Mariah Carey Level range there Yeah The booms to the squeaks Mariah Levy

Mariah Carey level Whistle Without the number one singles Without the Christmas single Yeah Without the Christmas single Only because they probably Haven't tried

Yeah So Fantastic I think you've won me over On that one No Are you leaving the Ketadu team

I think that's where I'm going I think Ketadu will be my Because. No, you're leaving the Ketiru team. I think that's where I'm going. I think Ketiru will be my... Because for me, that's the bird I enjoy the most. Yeah, I know. I love when they fly over. When they come to my house, I'm like... But that's only because you haven't seen a kakapo. I have never seen a kakapo with my eyes.

You know, here's another thing about the kakapo. It's got an owl's face. Yeah, it's pretty cute. It's got an owl's face. Pretty cute. Well, vote because I'm guessing that voting closes, what, this weekend? Yep, yep, yep. Last couple of days.

So today's fact of the day about the kakapo is that the male kakapo will attend a gladiator-style bachelorette audition at a special breeding arena to win the heart of a possible female mate. Fact of the day, day, day, case, wake up! Or you enjoyed it. So drop us a review and tell your friends. That's how podcasts work.