Hunting News & Events
‘Good weather for ducks’- Fish & Game tips better game bird season as rain ends Indian summer
The sudden arrival of rain over much of the country this week is being described as “good weather for ducks” with the gamebird season opening on Saturday 7 May.
- 5/05/2016
Hunting & fishing company backs Fish & Game duck research
Game bird hunters prepared to help Fish & Game in their ongoing duck research – have the chance of winning one of the latest camo’ hunting jackets.
- 3/05/2016
Hunting & gathering - the Gamebird Food Festival is back for 2016!
Some of New Zealand’s best restaurants are again offering game bird hunters the opportunity to have their bag professionally cooked during the 2016 Game Bird Food Festival.
- 28/04/2016
Good news for game bird hunters: longer seasons, bigger bags
Game bird hunters in a number of regions will get more opportunity to target their favourite quarry this hunting season – after some healthy increases in duck populations.
- 26/04/2016
Game bird hunters reminded to turn out on pegging day to reserve hunting spot
Fish & Game is reminding game bird hunters to get out and stake a claim this weekend for their favourite maimai, before the game bird season starts on Saturday, 7…
- 5/04/2016
Wetland birds die in botulism outbreak
A botulism outbreak at an internationally significant wetland just south of Auckland has killed hundreds of game and migratory birds including some endangered species.
- 25/02/2016
Tracking mallards - latest word from the researchers
Fish & Game’s major mallard research project is continuing – but already producing some valuable insights – for example into survival rates for female ducks and their ducklings.
- 8/09/2015
Last chance to bag some game birds
Fish & Game is urging gamebird hunters to make the most of the last weekend of the gamebird season and bag some upland game birds – pheasants and quail –…
- 27/08/2015
Turning out for the big 'spoony' count
More than 50 Fish & Game officers and volunteers turned out in early August, to carry out Fish & Game’s only nationwide bird count – centred on the shoveler duck…
- 13/08/2015
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Operation Duck Pond is signing up more volunteers, following a “very good response” from game bird hunters to a fresh appeal for pond observers.
- 13/08/2015