Ah yes, affect and effect. Not enough people understand the difference and
use them incorrectly most of the time. Another set is cite, sight, and site.
Out with the dictionaries .
T
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From:
On Behalf Of Martin
Butterfield
Sent: Friday, 4 October 2013 8:40 AM
To: John Leonard
Cc: Birding-aus
Subject: Pink-eared Duck
Of more interest may be that I thought, with some satisfaction,that the Game
Council had been disbanded or abolished. see
http://www.gamecouncil.nsw.gov.au/ - note first sentence under "*IMPORTANT
NOTICE - ORANGE OFFICES CLOSED"*
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Martin
On 4 October 2013 08:46, John Leonard <> wrote:
> Being the pedant I am I would reply to the NSW Government and say if
> the behaviour of this duck "effects rice growth", then what's the problem?
>
> John Leonard
>
> On 4 October 2013 08:42, Neville Schrader OAM <>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've got an interesting reply from the NSW Government in relation to
> > recent amendments to the Game and feral Animal Control Act 2002.
> >
> > The contents of the letter in justifying adding the Pink-eared Duck,
> > was to quote "evidence suggests that this species may not eat seed
> > but they
> may
> > land in crops in groups and create muddy water which effects rice
> > growth and also create open patches which are then used by seed
> > eating ducks to access crops." A lot of maybe's, but no evidence.
> > Does anyone know of any studies on ducks in rice crop, carried out
> > recently or in the last few years, that provide evidence to these
allegations.
> >
> > The interest conclusion to the letter intrigued me, suggesting that
> > I contact the game council if I wished to discuss this issue
> > further. I thought the Government run the state. Maybe I'm wrong.
> >
> > If I was a spoonbill I'd step lightly from now on.
> >
> > Neville
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