Not sure there is a “duck season”.
Cheers
Chris Gregory
On 15 June 2012 17:10, Carl Clifford wrote:
> At least we will be ready for the next Canada Goose invasion of our > National Parks . Or will our fearless little Nimrods have to wait until > duck season. > > Cheers, > > Carl Clifford > > Sent from my iPad > > On 15/06/2012, at 14:02, Chris Gregory wrote: > > > Good news if you live in NSW, as I do, from July 1st you get an 18% > > increase in your electricity bill and as a trade off you get to keep 10 > > metres from a bloke (must be over 12 years of age) with a gun in your > > favourite NP. A win win all round really – unless you are a Topknot > Pigeon. > > Here is a link to the Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009 > and > > below it a listing of birds and animals included in the bill. > > > > > http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/1d4800a7a88cc2abca256e9800121f01/6dce0470707e4f4bca2575b4001bd3f1/$FILE/b2009-031-d10-House.pdf > > > > Native game animals (licence required to hunt on public or private land) > > > > Ducks > > > > Australian Shelduck (or Mountain Duck) (Tadorna tadornoides) > > Australian Wood Duck (or Maned Duck) (Chenonetta jubata) > > Black Duck (or Pacific Black Duck) (Anas superciliosa) > > Blue-winged Shoveler (or Australasian Shoveler) (Anas rhynchotis) > > Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) > > Grass Duck (or Plumed Whistling Duck) (Dendrocygna eytoni) > > Grey Teal (Anas gibberifrons) > > Hardhead Duck (or White-eyed Duck) (Aythya australia) > > Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) > > Water Whistling Duck (or Wandering Whistling Duck, Whistling or > > Wandering Tree Duck) (Dendrocygna arcuata) > > > > Quails > > Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) > > Stubble Quail (Coturnix pectoralis) > > > > Other birds > > Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) > > Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) > > Common Bronzewing Pigeon (Phaps chalcoptera) > > Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) > > Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea) > > Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) > > Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) > > Straw Necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis) > > Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) > > Topknot Pigeon (Lopholaimus antarcticus) > > > > Kangaroos > > Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) > > Euro (Macropus robustus) > > Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus) > > Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus) > > > > Part 3 Non-indigenous animals (licence required to hunt on public land > only) > > Note. A game hunting licence is not required for hunting the animals > listed > > in this Part > > on private land, and accordingly is only required if the animals are > living > > in the wild on > > public land > > > > Amphibians > > Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) > > > > Birds > > Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) > > Common Pigeon (Columba livia) > > Domestic Goose (Anser anser domesticus and Anser cygnoides domesticus) > > European Blackbird (Turdus merula) > > European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) > > European Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris) > > House Crow (vagrant) (Corvus splendens) > > House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) > > Hungarian Partridge (Perdix perdix) > > Indian Myna (Acridotheres tristis) > > Indian Ringneck (vagrant) (Psittacula krameri) > > Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschate) > > Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) > > Rock Dove (or Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia) > > Skylark (Alauda arvensis) > > Song Thrush (Turdus philomelus) > > Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) > > Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) > > > > Other animals living in the wild > > Cat > > Dog (other than dingo) > > Goat > > Fox > > Hare > > Rabbit > > Pig > > > > Cheers > > Chris Gregory (this name is my sign off and not part of the above list!) > > > > On 15 June 2012 11:24, Carl Clifford wrote: > > > >> > >> Dear All, > >> > >> On p5 of today’s Sydney Morning Herald, there is an item headed “Public > >> face ban from parts of parks”. In part, this item states that the bill > >> allowing shooting in NSW National Parks is being amended, so that it > will > >> be an offence for a person to approach to within 10 metres of a hunter > in a > >> National Park. > >> > >> Reading through the bill, Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill > >> 2009, it also would seem that all is set, legislatively, to allow the > >> hunting of ducks and other game birds. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Carl Clifford > >> > >> > >> Sent from my iPad > >> =============================== > >> > >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > >> send the message: > >> unsubscribe > >> (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > >> to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > >> > >> http://birding-aus.org > >> =============================== > >> > > =============================== > > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > > send the message: > > unsubscribe > > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > > > http://birding-aus.org > > =============================== > ===============================
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