Rare smelly penguin wins New Zealand bird of the year contest One of the world’s rarest penguins has been crowned New Zealand’s bird of the year, in an unusually sedate year for the competition, free from the foreign interference and voting scandals of previous events. The endangered yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, is the largest of New Zealand’s mainland penguin species and is distinctive for the pale […] https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/rare-smelly-penguin-wins-new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-contest/