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Dead ducks

To: "Paul Foxworthy" <>, " Doug Holly" <>, " Birding-aus" <>
Subject: Dead ducks
From: <>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:52:32 +1100 (EST)
No, hardly any mallards or interbreeds here, hardheads and such "game" species 
are the target, apparently

P

-- Original Message --
From: Paul Foxworthy <>
To:  Holly <>, Birding-aus 
<>
Send: 02:10 PM
Subject: Dead ducks

At 02:12 PM 07/03/2002 +1100, 
wrote:
>Doug Holly wrote:
><<Banrock Station ...of course, no shooting....>>
>
>I have unconfirmed but credible reports that duck shooting does 
>occasionally occur at Banrock Station, by staff members, a questionable 
>practice in itself but especially given that they promote it as a wetland

>haven.

If it *is* going on, perhaps it's destruction of mallards and mallard 
hybrids (i.e. feral domestic ducks) in order to preserve the Pacific Black 
Duck?

Cheers

Paul Foxworthy


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