Hi Ed,
I don't think shooters would consider it a waste or mindless. They probably
are concentrated on the "skill" involved in shooting a flying duck!
Sonja
On 27/03/2013, at 2:02 PM, Ed Williams wrote:
> Does anyone know what the current Freckled Duck population is estimated at?
>
> It has obviously increased recently going by the number of sightings but
> surely the 243 dead that are already known of (and with plenty of hunting
> time still to go plus all the others shot) I would have thought this to be a
> statistically significant number killed.
>
> Even a lot of shooters would surely hang their heads at this kind of mindless
> killing.
>
> Such a waste...
>
> Ed
>
>
> Ed Williams
>
> On 27/03/2013, at 1:16 PM, "Debbie Lustig" <>
> wrote:
>
>> I hate writing this stuff but somebody's got to...
>>
>>
>>
>> On opening weekend of the duck season (16/17 March), a private wetland in
>> western Victoria was the scene of what's been described as a 'massacre'. The
>> Coalition Against Duck Shooting learned around 2000 birds were shot and
>> left, including 200 Freckled Ducks, and swans, coots, grebes and game
>> species. The full extent of the carnage will never be known although the
>> Department of Primary Industries and the police are investigating. This
>> appears to be highly embarrassing for the Minister for Agriculture, Peter
>> Walsh, as he's not only in charge of this 'highly regulated activity' but it
>> happened in his electorate. So far, one person has been charged.
>>
>>
>>
>> The ABC's news coverage:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-25/police-investigate-mass-slaughter-of-p
>> rotected-birds/4592690?section=vic
>>
>>
>>
>> ...and from 'The World Today':
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-26/mass-shooting-of-protected-birds-raise
>> s-new/4595290?section=vic
>>
>>
>>
>> Last weekend, about 150 dead birds were collected from Box Flat and brought
>> to Melbourne to display. They included 43 Freckled Duck, a Hoary-headed
>> Grebe, 5 Eurasian Coot, a Black Swan and a Blue-billed Duck (and 85 game
>> birds of five different species).
>>
>>
>>
>> Here are some photos:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151596509838125.1073741830.63812
>> 3124
>> <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151596509838125.1073741830.6381
>> 23124&type=1> &type=1
>>
>>
>>
>> Total = 156: 71 non-game comprising 43 endangered, 28 protected. Plus 85
>> game species.
>>
>>
>>
>> There's no hope that the Coalition will change its policy about duck
>> shooting. If you want it to end, along with outrages like this, please
>> consider emailing Daniel Andrews, leader of the state Labor Party - asking
>> him to call a halt to duck shooting if elected next year:
>>
>>
>>
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