Victorian birders are invited to help save native waterbirds when the duck hunting season starts on March 17. Information meetings will be held 29 February, 5 March and 8 March at 7.30pm on the top floor of Kindness House, 288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. You may like to help prevent birds being shot on the wetlands or collect the dead and wounded birds which are taken to the mobile veterinary unit on shore. But there are plenty of other jobs. Volunteers also help with transport, ‘shore’ duties at the wetlands and at an information tent in the caravan park.People with good bird ID skills can assist with identifying the protected species which hunters shoot illegally and leave on the wetlands.Last year, rescuers retrieved 630 birds from a handful of wetlands – shot and illegally left by hunters. This included 75 protected and endangered species such as Freckled Duck, Blue-billed Duck, Barn Owls, magpies, spoonbills, swans, swamphens, coots and ducklings.For more details, please contact Lynn at trakell_duck@yahoo.com.au
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