About 80,000 godwits arrive in New Zealand each year, and move into harbours and estuaries across the two islands
There’s a bird in New Zealand and it
Is usually called a godwit
But one’s been found to stray
Quite a long way away
It’s a navigational twit
National Geographic
A vicious bee swarm stopped play yesterday in a New Zealand cricket match
Entomologists seem to agree
That there’s many a threat to the bee
But this bug can still hatch
A plan to end a match
Which must have been funny to see
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A wine industry head has warned of ‘extremely low’ production of plonk in Europe due to bad weather
The people who make wine have said
That people who drink white or red
Will face a lean year
So whiskey and beer
Will have to work harder instead
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Authorities in Queensland, Australia surprised their Facebook followers with some splutter-inducing health advice
Health boffins who work in Queensland
Have said that you should use your hand
When you’re at your leisure
To give yourself pleasure
It’s a great way to keep feeling grand
Pic: Facebook
Delphi, an online AI bot, promises to answer any moral question users pose
Have you ever thought that a bot
Might somehow be someone who’s got
A simple way out
Of life’s moral doubt?
Because I’m fairly sure that they’ve not
World leaders have agreed a deal that aims to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade
Biden, Bolsonaro and Xi
Often fight but right now they agree
On taking a stand
Against clearing more land
Or what’s left of Earth’s forestry
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In a shock to New Zealand birds, a bat has swooped in to take out the annual bird of the year competition
New Zealand, as you may have heard
Has a vote every year for a bird
But is it quite fair
That a creature with hair
Can win now the lines have been blurred?
BBC
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s company rebrand has caused a backlash
After copping a whole lot of blame
Mark thought Facebook required a new name
A new start! But this act
Cannot hide the fact
They’ll still profit from lies just the same
Pic: Facebook
Workers’ tips are to be protected under new legislation
Employers who think they can slip
Their greasy hands into a tip
Then turn round and say
It’s part of your pay
Are being sent on a guilt trip
Alamy stock
HSE CEO Paul Reid at the launch of this year’s flu vaccine in September
I’m afraid that it seems to be true
That a rather bad strain of the flu
Is now on its way
So all we can say
Is here comes pandemic number two.
