GODWIT SEASON
OPENING TO-MORROW PROSPECTS FOR SPORTSMEN BIRDS SAID TO BE NUMEROUS Scattered throughout New Zealand after their long migratory flight from Siberia in October, godwits will become legal game for sportsmen to-morrow. The season will extent until February 14, and the limit has been fixed by tho Internal Affairs Department at 20 head a day. Numbers of the birds are to be seen on the Kaipara Harbour and on the tidal estuaries of North Auckland, at Buch places as Mangawai and Whangarei, and it is anticipated that many guns will be operating in these areas to-morrow morning. For the first few days, however, it is considered likely that small tides on the Kaipara Harbour will enable the birds to keep to the uncovered mud banks where they feed.
Improved conditions are expected to prevail for the second week of the season, when higher tides will put the birds in flight and provide better prospects for sportsmen. Observers report that, although the birds are very numerous, the tidal conditions have had tho effect of reducing the size of the flocks, which mainly consist of from 100 to 200 godwits.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11
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189GODWIT SEASON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11
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