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Mallards explore the South Pacific
Two intrepid New Zealand mallard ducks have turned up on the small New Caledonian island of Lifou.
Perfectly timed photo wins award for South Island photographer
Marlborough photographer Matt Winter’s expertly timed photo of two paradise shelducks in perfect symmetry has won the inaugural Game Bird Habitat Trust’s photo competition.
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Kiwi calls in the crowd and wins world duck calling champs
Kiwi teenager Ritson Galloway, who is the current New Zealand Live Duck Calling Champion, has blitzed the best duck callers from all over the world to become the first Non-American...
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Duck hunting still going ahead next year
Information spread by the Coalition of Licenced Firearms Owners (COLFO) and picked up by ACT’s David Seymour is incorrect.
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Call of the wild will ring out in Taupo on Saturday
A cacophony of duck calls will ring out at the New Zealand Duck and Goose Calling Championships this weekend.
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Hunters, great prizes for returning duck band details
Game bird hunters are again being offered some "very appealing" incentives to take part in one of Fish & Game’s longest-running scientific research programmes.
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Fish & Game hails ‘safe’ start to game bird season
Fish & Game has applauded duck hunters for a “safe and compliant” start to the new season that began early yesterday morning.
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Fish & Game hopeful of ‘first rate’ game bird season
Some "outstanding" hunting is in store for game bird hunters when the new season opens this weekend if the weather plays its part, according to Fish & Game.
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Otago Fish & Game finds mallards ducking for cover
Otago Fish & Game officer Paul van Klink has just completed the annual mallard monitoring flights over coastal and South Otago.
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Game bird hunters reminded to ‘sort their hunting spot’
Game bird hunters have been reminded to stake their claim on their favourite maimai or duck shooting stand before the start of the new hunting season starting Saturday, 4 May, 2019.
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Game bird hunters ‘first step’ towards promising new season
Keen game bird hunters will soon take the first step towards bagging some wild game when the new hunting season opens - with game bird hunting licences for the 2019...
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Hunters Score Conservation Win With Marlborough Wetland Restoration
The contribution hunters have made to saving and restoring Marlborough’s largest surviving lowland freshwater wetland is being highlighted to mark 2019 World Wetlands Day.
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Ducks by the hundred get ‘blinged up’ for scientific research
Hundreds of Bay of Plenty ducks are helping scientific research into their populations and habits by getting “blinged up” with bright, shiny bands on their legs.
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Kiwis set quacking pace at world waterfowl calling champs
Kiwi duck callers have “done New Zealand proud” in the World Waterfowl Calling Championships in the United States – with a string of placings including a second.
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Kiwis off to compete in world duck calling champs
Some of New Zealand’s top duck callers are preparing to head to the U.S. to compete in the World Waterfowl Calling Championships in the state of Maryland.
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Hunters ‘win big time’ for sending in duck band details
Helping Fish & Game’s research has “paid off big time” for five game bird hunters who’ve each been rewarded with a $600 Hunting & Fishing prize package – for returning...
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Manawatu teen quacks the duck calling top spot
A Manawatu teen has swept the New Zealand Duck and Goose Calling Championships in Taupo, winning all four categories he entered.
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New Zealand’s top youth shooters compete in Canterbury
Students from around the country have converged on Canterbury for this year’s annual New Zealand Secondary Schools Clay Target Championships.
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A big call – the hunt’s on for New Zealand’s best duck caller
The country’s aspiring duck and goose callers are preparing to out-cackle and “ruffle each other’s feathers” in the New Zealand Duck and Goose Calling Championships later this month.
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Urgent investigation into Hawke’s Bay pheasant dumping
Fish and Game has begun an urgent investigation into the dumping of dozens of dead pheasants on Napier’s Westshore Beach.
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