Thread: Harriers and Plovers...changes to the schedule...

beehive.govt.nz - Protection status changes to Wildlife Act

That's not putting Harriers in the same basket as Plovers, and I hope nobody thinks so. . . .

Harrier hawk (Circus approximans)[2]
Schedule 2
"Land occupiers can cull birds that threaten livestock but a permit is required to cull birds impacting on threatened species"

Where the hell is the logic in that? The harrier is a killer. Total eradication is what it deserves.

I like them, just simply watching them fly around is pretty cool. I hate when they get my ducks and shit though.

Originally Posted by Toby

I like them, just simply watching them fly around is pretty cool. I hate when they get my ducks and shit though.

Currently 5K per bird... Not as lot of meat for the money...
Seriously though the populations have gone since I was a kid LONG TIME AGOOOOO to saying oohh theres a Hawk
(Bought on Sheep Farm at Cust ...West Ereton to be honest Father worked as builder on a large farm for three four years)

You d see one a week really..
Move to Waikato and start living more rurally 10 plus years ago and see thrre four a week
Last duck shooting a little further out rurally see seven in the sky one morning all at same time
to today watch them figthing two out over the front and bugger me two out over the back at the same time.
Shoot a starking or Myna and chuck it in paddock all trace gone within 12 hours. (I shoot 30 + plus a week ...Starlings and Mynas that is off my deck
.17 HMR at up to 180 Mtrs and the Hawks just clean everything up. Including all my ducklings. Sure youd say stop feeding them but the objective is to stop the starlings-mynas
nesting on the house on the garage on the tractor on the horse truck and in the sheds... Phew thats a mouthful

End of the day the Harrier Population is growing big time to suit those who like to see them but not those who know that sporting birds suffer as a result

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I like watching them blow up

Like this at 100 Mtrs ooohhh that hurt



Or this luvely little head shot at 120



Blow them all upp and Hurry !!!

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I like watching them blow up

Poor hawks