Thread: Is that a pukeko or a Takahe Oooops!

He probalbly miss understood on thought he said IN the wing, theres bugger all difference in the words? Where are the professional, experience people when you need them.DOC Have a poor record in this area IMHO

Originally Posted by Maca49

Where are the professional, experience people when you need them.

They are all lurking here Macca Seems like DOC can do no right for a lot of folks on here...

presumembly doc let them know takehe were there and pointed out the simalarities??
tragic mistake but in the scheme of things pales in comparison to what 1080,s bowled over.
gives doc an excuse not to work with nzda tho.

Should have painted a white cross on the Takahe before the event. Hope the meat didnt go to waste, Should have a a ceremonial lunch for the fat pigs in parliment.

Who cares? Honestly how many of you would even know they didnt exsist anymore if they all died and no one said a thing. Better things to spend money and time on rather then 250 fucking birds

Toby when you see there natural habitat , you will then understand what a cool bird they are . We got to fly over the Murchison mts to the wapiti blocks . Impressive to say the least ! .

Toby, valid point of view, but I really hope you get to a point where trying to save species like Kakapo, Takahe and Tuatara means something.

The are absolutely unique, and tell the story of how NZ's ecosystem is so different from anything else in a fantastic way. Most folks would look at a Tuatara and go "oh, a big lizard", but they are endemic at the order level (uniqueness to the nth degree!)

Deerstalkers hunt big brown animals that don't fly.
Game bird shooters including Game bird clubs and F&G hunt flying game birds and make it their aim to be able to identify different types of bird.
Yet another DOC cock up, where does it stop?!!!

Using Volunteer's for a cull in the first place = Stupid move No 1
Then this

[QUOTE][/Deerstalkers hunt big brown animals that don't fly.
Game bird shooters including Game bird clubs and F&G hunt flying game birds and make it their aim to be able to identify different types of bird.QUOTE]


and then heaven forbid why wasn't the Bigger Purple Pheasant "disappeared under the pile

Stupidity knows no boundaries.

Originally Posted by stug

Deerstalkers mis-identify pukekos Hunters kill takahe during pukeko cull - National - NZ Herald News

Members of the NZDA. Labelling them as just hunters is perpetuating the myth that it was folks who only hunt deer - the media is trying to id them as guys with guns having a blat, which is not the case.""It shows complete incompetence on DOC's part to bring in these Barry Crump-type good keen men." - Labour MP Rino Tirakatene.

There's loads of people who are members of NZDA who don't hunt, and who are clay shooters, duck & game shooters, target shooters.

They were also shot by shotgun, not a T3

Kscott our newsroom could work it out this morning, Producers trying to understand what it meant, how can you shoot them in the wing.
Just ignorance of our sports. I was not in any way denigrating NZDA as I think they do a fine outstanding job.
You would think a Government Dept. would be required to source the best people for the most professional results, and yes I bet deerstalkers (Assn. or not) would be in that mix.
If I offended any deerstalkers, sincere apologies, but it was to good a shot to not take it, in jest, in jest I add.

lets face it -these birds hopefully were here one minute the gone unlike a bloody lot that suffered a lingering horrible death at the hands of DOC 1080.
Doc of course are too spineless to ever admit the wrongdoing and others which some canterbury folk are aware of but thats just repeating history eh.see old mad maggie the TV marigold mauler put her 5 bobs worth in.Katie Bradford(parliamentary TV reporter) ,bless her wee cotton knickers must have bumped into Maggie at the MPs canteen in parliament (or do they suck on the gin in bellamies for breakfast.?)and regaled her with the suitably tragic version of the tale!

toby .....that's a terrible fuking attitude

What I find hard to believe is that the shooters did not identify there target beyond doubt whether is a bird or deer the same rules apply which nzda