Thread: STUFF ;CANADA GEESE

Originally Posted by Quicknock

The canada geese around our area are well overdue for a culling. I can get to within 2m of a feeding flock at the moment and with a net I think I could get 10+ in a throw but of course there would be public that would see netting as causing undue stress to the animals. I'd buy a PCP to have a go at them if it was allowed(there are a couple of spots with good backstops where the geese could be shot from cover).

The ground around the kids playground where we are is a mine field of goose crap as are all of the paths and on a busy day I'd estimate close to 150 geese on the 4 ponds/grassy flats in the area. Our local council(KCDC) has a management plan but is not following it.

Hugh Shields(who seems to be currently banned from the forum) was doing some private culling in the area but without a large scale effort I doubt any one person would make a dent in the population. Here is a link to a thread where he posted a chat with the local wireless https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....ontrol-108383/

Unsure if there is an answer to controlling the CG population but the seemingly nothing being done now isn't working in our area.

That population was rumoured to have started with a small release. bullshit ofcourse they rose from over pressured birds from the wairarapa.shot quite a few on a certain rich buggers holdings at te horo.started growing at the param airport area and decommissioned wakanae crap ponds