PUKEKO EATS DUCKLINGS
A FARMER WITNESS REQUEST FOR AMMUNITION Instances of ducklings being killed and eaten by pukeko in the Stirling district were given in a letter received froiiruri farmer by the council of the Otago Acclimatisation Society last night. ~ , , “ One morning recently, he- wrote, “I saw a pukeko run after a duck with' a clutch of ducklings. The bird caught one of the ducklings and ate it. The following morning I saw the same thing occur, and soon after I watc&ed two pukeko get a duckling each. I ran after them, but they flew away with the ducklings in their beaks. ~ , , . “ I hjad some half-grown tame ducks myself, but one day recently they wandered near a pukeko which was sitting ,on eggs. The bird left the nest and ate the heads off four of the ducklings.” The writer said that if he were sejnt some .22 cartridges he would do the test. The council decided to place the farmer’s, request before the Department of Internal Affairs, With the recommendation that a permit for cartridges should be granted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24825, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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