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Good habitat greatly improves fledge success
Both Barrels May 2020

Season informationWith the Government confirming that we will move into Level 2 on Thursday 14th May, we can now say with certainty that our Game bird season will start on…

  • Hawke's Bay
  • 20/04/2020
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TBB1May2020. Record numbers of paradise shelduck were counted on the Taranaki ringplain during the January 2020 moult
Both Barrels May 2020

Game bird season begins May 23With NZ now in Alert Level 2, hunters can look forward with anticipation to the duck and pheasant hunting season kicking off at 6.

  • Taranaki
  • 20/04/2020
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Both Barrels May 2020

3 … 2 …. 1 … Game On! Hunters finally have the news they've been patiently waiting for – it's game on!

  • Wellington
  • 20/04/2020
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Both Barrels May 2020

We only have a few days till the start of the unique 2020 game bird season.

  • Nelson/Marlborough
  • 20/04/2020
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Both Barrels May 2020

Lockdown lifted!

  • West Coast
  • 20/04/2020
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Both Barrels May 2020

North Canterbury game bird season looking exceptionalHunters man your maimai’s, this is going to be a good one!

  • North Canterbury
  • 20/04/2020
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BB CSI 1 time to set your sights on the 2020 game bird season Credit Rhys Adams
Both Barrels May 2020

Welcome to the seasonWe are predicting that the 2020 game bird hunting season will provide excellent hunting, but due to Covid-19, not quiet in the normal way.

  • Central South Island
  • 20/04/2020
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Both Barrels May 2020

Yes, Opening Day is Finally Happening!

  • Otago
  • 20/04/2020
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Good habitat greatly improves fledge success
Both Barrels May 2020

Great season expected! From our Spring brood counts and ongoing wet Summer we have seen plenty of mallards, paradise shelduck and black swans getting around this season.

  • Southland
  • 20/04/2020
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Special Lockdown Edition Both Barrels April 2020

What F&G has been working on during the lockdown Over the first two weeks of the lockdown, Fish & Game have been scenario planning around what form the game bird season…

  • 7/04/2020
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