Thread: trapping pukekos

Oh, and they are aggressive and will happily kill other animals, including endemic ducklings etc.

Question. If you applied to shoot pukes as they were fouling your water and refused a shooting permit, could you then hold the relevant athourity who refused the permit, if you were to lose stock due a direct result of them fouling the water.
I was under the impression that the native classification was applied to any animal that made it here under its own steam and started its own population. That in fact there are native animals that have very recently self introduced. Endemic is only of this country.

Yeah I believe they used to be protected but have recently ( in the last few years) gone onto the duck shooting season license, or you can apply to shoot them on a case by case basis. I have a mate in Wainuiamata who has horses and donkeys and he has lost animals to Salmonella from them getting into the troughs.

Originally Posted by kruza

Question. If you applied to shoot pukes as they were fouling your water and refused a shooting permit, could you then hold the relevant athourity who refused the permit, if you were to lose stock due a direct result of them fouling the water.
I was under the impression that the native classification was applied to any animal that made it here under its own steam and started its own population. That in fact there are native animals that have very recently self introduced. Endemic is only of this country.

Originally Posted by rugerman

Yeah I believe they used to be protected but have recently ( in the last few years) gone onto the duck shooting season license, ...

Mum cooked up a puke casserole for us during duckshooting in 1979, so I hope they have been on the license for quite a while. It was nice.

All birds are automatically protected in NZ, if a new species arrives it is fully protected until it is added to a schedule of the Wildlife Act.

Originally Posted by Cigar

Mum cooked up a puke casserole for us during duckshooting in 1979, so I hope they have been on the license for quite a while. It was nice.

All birds are automatically protected in NZ, if a new species arrives it is fully protected until it is added to a schedule of the Wildlife Act.

The Fish and Game cookbook that came out last year has a couple of good recipes for em. Not bad. I'll shoot em if I see em so may as well eat them.

Originally Posted by Cigar

Mum cooked up a puke casserole for us during duckshooting in 1979, so I hope they have been on the license for quite a while. It was nice.

All birds are automatically protected in NZ, if a new species arrives it is fully protected until it is added to a schedule of the Wildlife Act.

You are pulling everyones leg? We did same about 1975. Did it all ways possible cooking. A leather boot tastes nicer. My mate up Auckland is trying to explain to the insurance company how the puke went so far to imbed itself into his motor. Destroyed the grill and everything else. Think he is regretting his moment of puke hatred.

Originally Posted by TeRei

You are pulling everyones leg? We did same about 1975. Did it all ways possible cooking. A leather boot tastes nicer. My mate up Auckland is trying to explain to the insurance company how the puke went so far to imbed itself into his motor. Destroyed the grill and everything else. Think he is regretting his moment of puke hatred.

I eat them ...crock pot is your friend...but sliced up breast meat in nuggets is better..there isnt a huge amount of meat on poor ol puke to begin with.

Originally Posted by rugerman

Yeah I believe they used to be protected but have recently ( in the last few years) gone onto the duck shooting season license, or you can apply to shoot them on a case by case basis. I have a mate in Wainuiamata who has horses and donkeys and he has lost animals to Salmonella from them getting into the troughs.

they have been on gamebird licence for all of my 35 years of buying siad licence...in fact if my memory serves me correctly..and can check if needed,the yare 2nd most shot game bird behind the mallard...most guys shoot at least 1 per season....cant say same for many species.

Cheers Mintie, yeah I might as well just go through the process and give them a proper going over

Seen them kill a few ducklings on the pond below my house. Teal and grey ducklings.
When they come up harassing my chooks in there run they are fear game.

Originally Posted by rugerman

Hi guys, we have a heap of pukekos around work and although I might be able to get permission to shoot them it would be a metric shitton of paper work and hassle. So I was thinking of using a live capture trap and giving them the old bing bong. Has anyone trapped Pukes before and what bait did you use to catch them ?
They are getting in the drinking bowls and spreading Giardia and other nasties so want to thin them out a bit.

Trap them with a 17HMR. PM Mintie. Guru in these birds.

I've heard the permits aren't hard to get, F&G is pretty reasonable.

Or wait till May, they have a 3 month season. Last year 5 a day was bag limit.

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

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...

I've got no time for pooks. One of them destroved a kidney grille in an M5 Beemer I had at the time, cost a heap to fix.