{"id":4782,"date":"2024-05-23T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbuddy.co.in\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2024-05-23T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:55:31","slug":"huia-bird-feather-sold-for-23-lakhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/?p=4782","title":{"rendered":"Huia bird feather sold for 23 lakhs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Auckland: <\/em><\/strong>A feather of the extinct New Zealand Huia bird has been auctioned for $28,417. This price in Indian rupees is around Rs 23 lakh.<br>The auction company says that they expected to get up to 3 thousand dollars but the auction of this feather has broken the old records.<br>This bird used to be very sacred for the Maori people, the tribe of New Zealand.<br>These people used to put the feather of this bird on their turban, or this feather was also used as a gift.<br>According to the New Zealand Museum, this bird was last seen in 1907.<br>There were some unconfirmed reports of it being seen even two to three decades ago.<br>This bird was known for its jumping ability and beautiful feathers. The auction company says the feather auctioned on Monday is in good condition and was not damaged\u00a0by\u00a0insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland: A feather of the extinct New Zealand Huia bird has been auctioned for $28,417&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-newstoday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4783,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}