Thread: trapping pukekos

Originally Posted by Cigar

A year or so ago I happened to change TV channels and Tiger Woods was playing golf and there were pukeko's in the background near the lake. I didn't know he was playing down this way, and turned out he wasn't - he was in Orlando Florida but they have a very similar bird there

They would have been Purple Gallinules.....

I started hunting gamebirds with my father in the very late 50's early 60's. (Auckland/Waikato region) Pukekos were on the licence back then. Many a budding hunter took a Pukeko as their first gamebird under their fathers supervision...........and that act was instrumental in creating the next crop of hunters......
My Grandmother would stick the (jointed)birds in a pressure cooker, strip the flesh off the bones and make Pukeko soup. It gave many young fellas a sense of pride when they put food on the table...