Here you'll be able to find out what we're doing in the field to both improve our knowledge of this valued game bird and ultimately benefit hunters.
You'll find a stack of information here which will be updated as milestones are met and new reports come to hand. If you want to be informed of new posts to this page, don't forget to 'like' Fish & Game on Facebook.
Latest update: March 2018
In January 2018, Jenn Sheppard was awarded a PhD for her thesis on breeding ecology and productivity…
Abdominal implanted radio transmitters have been widely used in studies of waterbird ecology.
Howev…
A Fish & Game study has probed the impact of hunting regulations such as bag limits and season lengt…
By Jenn Sheppard
Despite being in New Zealand for 150 years, little is known about mallard ducks. T…
Southland Fish & Game Officer Erin Garrick has received top marks for her thesis towards a Masters i…
The study, spearheaded by the University of Auckland PhD student Jenn and Auckland Waikato Region ga…
Fish & Game’s major mallard research project is continuing – but already producing some valuable ins…
Fish & Game’s landmark mallard research project has finished its first season, and while there are a…
Central North Island Fish & Game officers are hopeful of a better game bird season in May, after tho…
A groundbreaking Fish & Game study is helping researchers shed light on the nesting habits of mallar…
Our PhD student Jenn Sheppard is here, enrolled at Auckland and settling in well. It’s been all acti…
Perhaps the least 'sexy' of the mallard research projects, monitoring trends in mallard populations …
Latest update (April 15, 2014): click here for more details about this project.
Operation Duck Pond…