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Bats are only birds in the Bible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:AB88:370C:1480:69C1:CD9F:7AD1:C03C ( talk) 21:55, 1 November 2021 (UTC) reply

Forest and Bird have claimed their comms manager Helen Bain started BOTY (although she doesn't seem to have started until aftet the first campaign in 2005). A new editor just added the claim that Michael Szabo was the originator (perhaps he was working for F&B at the time) but did not supply a citation to back this up, Giantflightlessbirds ( talk) 21:23, 20 November 2023 (UTC) reply