Taylor Swift Has Ruffled Some Feathers In New Zealand

“Taylor Swift filming at Bethells this week”.

Ido Drent has revealed what happened outside an aircraft’s lavatory.

Waitakere Ranges local board chairwoman Sandra Coney expressed her concerns about the impact of filming on the birds on Facebook.

American singer Taylor Swift has ruffled feathers while filming a music video at an Auckland beach, with the local board “disappointed” the shoot put a rare native bird at risk.

“But she’s got another song, Wildest Dreams, that says, ‘Say you’ll remember me.’ Maybe I’ll do that instead”.

The Bad Blood singer’s production company was given permission to film at Bethells Beach near Auckland, home to the critically-endangered New Zealand dotterel.

“Taylor’s lot did not show any respect for the environment or the conditions of their consent”.

A woman dressed in a long black jacket with a hood up – who was believed to be an incognito Swift – was spotted at Queenstown Airport, the Otago Daily Times reported.

The setting for the shoot was a beach in New Zealand.

“In acknowledgement of the concern this has added to those in charge of protecting local dotterel population, Cherokee Films will make a donation to the breeding program as we support your concerns”.

Cherokee Films, the company making the video, has now issued a statement defending Taylor Swift.

The company said: “As the local film production company…we accept responsibility and apologise for this situation”.

The permit had special conditions that allowed two essential vehicles to be on the beach.

Responding to the news, ATEED said they couldn’t punish production companies that breached their permits, but it didn’t mean they would just “shake it off”. But a spokesman for Screen Auckland – part of Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (Ateed) – said he had been assured the crew did not go near the habitat of the dotterel, of which only about 1700 remain in New Zealand.

A DJ at Auckland’s bFM, Gin Halligan, was similarly unimpressed.

“They are a pretty wonderful species on the beach, and generally I think there’s too many people with their dogs on the beach”.

The Department of Conservation’s website appeared to be down overnight, potentially thanks to Swift fans looking up the dotterel.