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A yellow-eyed penguin

Tactical voting helps yellow-eyed penguin seize bird of the year crown

11 November 2019

Social media campaigning and a strategic voting alliance have helped the yellow-eyed penguin beat fierce competition to become New Zealand’s bird of the year

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