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Hawke's Bay Game Bird Newsletter 2018

The new Hawke's Bay Game Bird Newsletter for 2018 is now out.

  • Hawke's Bay
  • 14/03/2018
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Hawke's Bay Game Bird Newsletter 2018

The new Hawke's Bay Fish & Game Game Bird Newsletter is out now.    

  • Hawke's Bay
  • 14/03/2018
  • Hawkes Bay
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2018 Game season ballot for hunting stands

Applications will be received from licensed game hunters, up to 5:00 pm on Monday 12th March 2018 for the occupation of hunting stands on Council controlled properties at: Wainono Reserve,…

  • Central South Island
  • 1/03/2018
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Summer hunting for ‘parries' on offer

For Taranaki game bird hunters who can’t wait for the traditional May start of the hunting season to come around, Fish & Game is all set to lay on some…

  • Taranaki
  • 19/02/2018
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Hunting Ballots

Applications are invited from game bird hunters for a very limited number of hunting stands at Lake Wairarapa and Pukepuke Lagoon (Himitangi). Click here for more information.

  • Wellington
  • 19/02/2018
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2018 season for paradise shelduck

The 2018 season for paradise shelduck in Taranaki Area C ONLY  is on the following days 24th and 25th February  and 3rd and  4th March 2018.

  • Taranaki
  • 16/02/2018
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Fish & game advises locals of ‘special game bird hunt’

Auckland / Waikato Fish & Game staff are alerting locals who live north of the Auckland Harbour Bridge to a special game bird hunt that will run over a weekend.

  • Auckland/Waikato
  • 16/02/2018
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Duck banding Feb 2018
‘Biggest ever’ duck banding tally bodes well for game bird season

Duck hunters will have no shortage of birds to target when the new game bird season kicks off in May (Saturday May 5) – going by the latest Fish &…

  • 15/02/2018
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Duck banding Feb 2018
‘Biggest ever’ duck banding tally bodes well for game bird season

Duck hunters will have no shortage of birds to target when the new game bird season kicks off in May (Saturday May 5) – going by the latest Fish &…

  • Eastern
  • 15/02/2018
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Help our threatened wetlands on World Wetlands Day

New Zealanders are being urged to celebrate World Wetlands Day by doing something practical to help protect wetlands, a habitat crucial to the survival of many of this country’s wildlife…

  • 2/02/2018
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