Thread: Pukeko legal or not?

Originally Posted by Littledog

I am having trouble with Puk's eating our chook eggs and even a few chicks. I made a fenced run for the chooks but the puks still get in. Is it legal to shoot the Puks without a game bird license? I tried searching the net but I got conflicting answers.

Anyone know?
Cheers.

My neighbours have a reserve of some sort, thier pukes keep coming over to my duckpond and killed of my duck chicks, i got 5 of them the other flew off, see them occaisoianly but they take off real quick. Now im dealing to the hawks as they have got the nesting adults

Originally Posted by Martin358

My neighbours have a reserve of some sort, thier pukes keep coming over to my duckpond and killed of my duck chicks, i got 5 of them the other flew off, see them occaisoianly but they take off real quick. Now im dealing to the hawks as they have got the nesting adults

I think you need to read the rules around killing harrier

Originally Posted by Expert

It is important to realize that you cannot simply take measures to reduce harrier populations to protect wild, free ranging gamebirds, (whether hand - raised or not), such as pheasants, quail, mallard or other game ducks, pukekos etc. To protect any of these, you still need a DoC permit.

http://hunting.fishandgame.org.nz/si...s%20change.pdf