The New Zealanders have finally done it – they’ve turned me into a bird-lover | Rebecca Shaw

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The New Zealanders have finally done it – they’ve turned me into a bird-lover | Rebecca Shaw
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It seems like every single Kiwi has some kind of bird madness, and I know now that I am infected (and loving it)

his week, during a visit to the Wellington zoo, I had a realisation about myself. No, it’s not that I wish to strip off all my clothes and live out my days swinging nude from the trees like a spider monkey, although that does sound great.

One thing they don’t tell you is that new zealanders absolutely love talking about their birds. Every time I’ve been at a gathering of three or more people, they have started talking about the birds at some pointI tweeted the above statement in 2021. The obsession with birds was one of the earliest things I noticed in Aotearoa, and it has remained a long-running theme. If you stand in one spot long enough in Wellington, at some point someone nearby will start talking about birds.

It seems like everyone in Wellington has some kind of bird madness , and I know now that I am infected.

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