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Birds in the News with Laura Erickson

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published November 5, 2021 at 12:38 PM CDT

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"A huge congratulations to the pekapeka long-tailed bat for winning #BirdoftheYear 2021!" tweeted Forest & Bird. "Despite being our only endemic land mammal, most people don't even know they exist, which makes their win even more outstanding."

Forest & Bird

Things that are not as they seem: John James Audubon, condor "virgin births," and New Zealand's Bird of the Year

If theAudubon Naturalist Society is dropping the "Audubon" from it's name, could the National Audubon Society be far behind?

The two female condors who produced chicks with no contributions from a male did so by a process scientists call "facultative parthenogenesis" - no virginity required and no birth, either. (Click the photo below to see the video from the San Diego Zoo)

Conservation scientists at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance reported an extraordinary discovery last week—two California condor chicks hatched from unfertilized eggs.

San Diego Zoo

And New Zealand's Bird of the Year is a long-tailed bat. And yes, they did realized that before conferring the award.