U.S. Reality TV Star Eats Super-Rare Endangered Bird

A U.S. reality show has come under pressure from the New Zealand government after one of its contestants ate an endangered bird.

Spencer ‘Corry’ Jones was given a warning after he killed a weka bird while participating in Race for Survival: New Zealand.

The weka is extinct across much of New Zealand and has an adult population of around 4,150. A flightless bird which has a curious and feisty nature, weka’s are known to pilfer small objects and take them to nearby caves to investigate, according to the New Zealand Department of Conservation.

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