Dear B-A,
Perhaps duck hunters could be deterred by spreading the word that wetlands abound with the Botulism bacteria. Warnings that botulism could be contracted by handling dead birds and mud contaminated boots and waders may deter some. The idea may require massaging the fact a little, but quoting websites such as “Food Poison Journal” and their article headed “Botulism Warning to Duck Hunters as Season Nears” http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/food-poisoning-watch/botulism-warning-to-duck-hunters-as-season-nears/ may deter some. Admittedly, the risk is mainly to the hunters dogs, but hunters are attached to their dogs, and a good hunting dog does not come cheap.
Carl Clifford ===============================
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Might work.
Agent Orange controversy and a confusion between infertility a impotence caused the hunting of Topknot Pigeons to cease here on the Atherton Tablelands. It was hard to keep a straight face as I encouraged this misapprehension.
Alan
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Several years ago over a thousand waterfowl died at Leanyer Sewage Ponds. I took several birds to be autopsied. The cause of death turned out to be an overload of parasites in malnourished birds. We rescued dozens at some risk to ourselves (crocodiles, giardia etc).
And then there was the pelican with the broken wing. I paddled a dinghy around the ponds for over two hours before cornering the bird. It was then captured by a friend, Rogan Draper, an obstetrician who only a few weeks before had delivered my son by caesarean.
Rogan and my anaesthetist, Gerry Goodhand, x-rayed the bird at Darwin Hospital, and then set its wing. But it never healed properly. Called Kruger the bird lived out its days in Rogan’s yard.