Thread: Is that a pukeko or a Takahe Oooops!

I'm curious to hear the NZDA version because the birds weren't reported until DoC found them a couple of days later via their attached transmitters. That would indicate to me that the person or persons who shot the birds either did not confirm the kills or deliberately did not report they had killed birds carrying transmitters.

Have the birds been autopsied and confirmed killed by shotgun pellets?

Is it possible there were other "unofficial" shooters on the island either before or after the cull?

is it a possible set-up?
It seems very fishy to me that official NZDA hunters did deliberately not report a mistake immediately, because they must surely have known the transmitters and birds would be found and quite apart from that fact, would presumably have been of good character to even be nominated by their branch to undertake the task. (Stupid decision as that may be--.)