Yesterday I was looking at huge flocks of ducks of various species at
Fivebough Swamp - every now and again a White-bellied Sea-eagle flew low
over the swamp, putting the assorted 1000s of duck to flight - while they
were stitting on the water, even at a considerable distance, it was pretty
simple to pick the pink-eared ducks, the shovellers, the grey teal etc, but
in flight, with them all flying in a panic, it was not nearly so easy, so I
imagine a shooter, even one with OK ID skills if looking at pics on a page,
would not be able to tell one from the other when there's a large group in
the air.
(The sea-eagle was being harrassed by 2 whistling kites, and a swamp
harrier was also cruising around, so the ducks were all a bit nervous)
for anyone thinking of going to Fivebough - still lots of water, good views
since lots of cumbungi died down in last year's floods, paths now
accessible. Lots of red-necked avocets, black-winged stilts, pelicans,
swans, a few yellow-billed spoonbills, black-fronted and red-kneed
dotterels. didn't see a brolga though, which have been there in numbers
recently. The sewage ponds I looked at had good numbers of chestnut teal
and hoary-headed grebes, and approx. 500 purple swamphens sitting in the
vegetation along the edges of the ponds - several per square metre of veg.
I've never seen so many swamphens crowded in together.
sandra henderson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Neville Schrader OAM <
> wrote:
> It appears the politicians might be a little embarrassed or just plain
> ignorant, as I can't get a reply to my correspondence in relation to the
> pink-eared Duck.
>
> Neville
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hobbs
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:14 PM
> To: <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Duck Shooting in NSW
>
> Well looking at some of the results from Victoria I suspect the saying
> should be modified to something like "if it moves and is near water then
> it is probably a duck", shoot it.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 26/06/2013 11:28 AM, Philip Veerman wrote:
>
>> Yes that is obviously what I am suggesting. I wonder if you are asking in
>> a
>> sarcastic way. It is easy for someone who knows the birds to say that a
>> species is distinctive. Yes they are. If you care. If you are experienced.
>> Every duck species has features on which it can be identified. There is
>> surely a huge range of skills in the shooting fraternity, just as there is
>> among us. There is the saying "if it looks like a duck and quacks like a
>> duck it is a duck" and that will be the level of interest to many people.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Shute
>> Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 8:54 AM
>> To: 'Philip Veerman';
>> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Duck Shooting in NSW
>>
>>
>> Philip, are you suggesting that shooters might have trouble recognising a
>> Pink-eared Duck? I would have thought there were few ducks that were so
>> distinctive. In Victoria at least, shooters have to pass an identification
>> test.
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
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