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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.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Paradise Shelduck stamp Posted 37 days ago by Richie Cosgrove

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...

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 3 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

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.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged Paradise Shelduck game bird Posted 4 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

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.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 5 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 9 months ago by Brian Anderton

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 10 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 10 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 10 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 11 months ago

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...

Posted in Hunting, Events; Tagged game bird Posted 11 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting, Environment; Tagged game bird Posted 13 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 13 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 15 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 16 months ago

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...

Posted in Hunting; Posted 17 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting; Posted 17 months ago

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.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 17 months ago by Richie Cosgrove

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.

Posted in Hunting; Tagged game bird Posted 17 months ago