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Duck hunting season

To: birding-aus <>, Lynn Trakell <>
Subject: Duck hunting season
From: Debbie Lustig <>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:03:28 +1100






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 
  

                                          
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