King Country Special Parrie Season Permit

27th & 28th February 2021

Select here to apply for permit

LIMIT: 10 Paradise Shelduck and/or 10 Pukeko per day per hunter.

HOURS OF HUNTING: 6.30am - 8.00pm

HUNTING AREA: All that area of the Waitomo District Council, (which goes to Mokau), Otorohanga, Taupo and Ruapehu District Councils, where these lie WITHIN our region. Please select here to view map.

No shooting within 200m of the boundary of a municipal wastewater treatment plant.
Carrying a Special Paradise Shelduck Season Permit while hunting is mandatory, including for landowners. $5 permit charge. Permits available from Auckland Waikato Fish & Game Council Hamilton office only. Please select the link above.
You must ALSO have a 2020 gamebird licence, (unless you are the primary land-occupier on your own property), as well as the special permit.
If you don’t have a 2020 season licence, you can purchase either one or two day licence/s as required. Note that, you cannot buy a 2021 season licence yet. However, the special season is covered by the 2020 licence, which remains valid until immediately before the new 2021 gamebird season opens in May.
Hunters will need to find and make their own access arrangements with landowners who have paradise shelduck to hunt.
The intent of this season is to break up large mobs of birds and to reduce damage to grass and crops, rather than targeting lone breeding pairs of birds.
Do not shoot parry moulters, that cannot fly. They are typically in very poor condition/eating during the moult period.
Please responsibly dispose of all guts/feathers/frames. If burying these, discuss where-to with the landowner first.
Many hunters have parry meat made into sausages and/or salamis. Removing shot pellets will make this much easier for butchers and their machinery (& human teeth!).
Hunting can only be undertaken with a shotgun of a 10 gauge or smaller that is capable of holding no more than 3 shells.
You can only use lead shot if you are more than 200m from a waterway, or if you are using a sub-gauge shotgun, (this exemption does not apply on Fish & Game or DoC land this season). Otherwise please use steel or other non-toxic ammo.
Rangers will be in the area checking hunters.

We wish you a safe and productive hunting experience.

King Country Special Parrie Season Permit

Hunters requiring a permit must provide the following details which will be sent onto our Hamilton office, payment information (via internet banking) will be sent to you once you submit the information.