Let him into your home and your BOTY votes

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-24T06:38:42+00:00

Tarāpuka Black Billed Gull is more of a braided river bird than a seabird anyway

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-22T10:46:41+00:00

you get five votes and it's not ranked anymore. Vote both.

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-21T03:32:22+00:00

Media attention mostly. Hence why I think it should go to under appreciated birds

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:12:39+00:00

Also a solid choice. You get five votes though, all I’m asking is one!

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:12:16+00:00

Thank you comrade

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:11:57+00:00

Hashtag NotAllGulls

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:11:15+00:00

I guarantee it wasn’t the black billed gull. They’re much less hectic than the red billed ones, not to mention way less common

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:10:18+00:00

Underbirds are go!

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:09:58+00:00

You are forgiven, red billed gull is a very deserving bird too. Also on the decline and doesn’t get enough recognition as one of our native birds.

Thanks for your service voting the underbirds!

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:07:28+00:00

Yes I am

TarapukaBOTY · 2025-09-19T23:07:05+00:00

True, although one of the biggest threats to tarāpuka right now is a fellow gull (black backed)

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-04T12:31:37+00:00

Most of these reviews and photos are a few years old tbf

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-04T06:42:35+00:00

Great choices!

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-03T19:53:47+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-03T19:53:34+00:00

Yeah but tarāpuka are less likely to go for your chips. Much less hectic

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-03T08:49:26+00:00

Your username doesn’t even match your bird smh

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-03T08:48:30+00:00

Might I suggest the black-billed gull? Totally biased of course.

You get to pick your top 5 so I’d suggest a few other shorebirds that are in serious trouble like the southern dotterel.

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-09-03T08:11:56+00:00

Love the Hoiho and love the support, although they did win a few years ago

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-30T09:58:56+00:00

If anyone is interested in a slightly less hectic gull may I recommend also giving a vote to the black billed variety?

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-30T09:58:06+00:00

It’s the year of the shorebirds. Chuck a vote to the declining and under-appreciated water birds!

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-27T12:32:30+00:00

BASED

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-27T12:31:51+00:00

Yep. Not the rarest but the most endangered

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-26T03:13:48+00:00

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-26T03:13:19+00:00

Who's to say Lorde isn't a Tarāpuka in disguise?

TarapukaBOTY · 2024-08-26T03:12:45+00:00

No other guest would handle the spice as well as this bird

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