Wood ducks don't like duck shooters!

I filmed these wood ducks at Mannum on the Murray River in South Australia. Recent floods upstream has the water level about 1930's flood level which is where it is supposed to be kept with the locks. Years of drought and over use of water by householders and farmers left the river up from Mannum able to be walked across, the lower lakes were completely empty and the Murray mouth has been kept open for the last 8 years with dredging. Native waterbird numbers are at 5% of 1984 figures and still SA, Vic and Tasmania hold recreational duck shooting seasons. Join duck rescue and help save our native waterbirds www.duck.org.au

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[cjii11]

have you eaten duck its delishes

[Tamaragriffiths1]

@cjii11

delicious, you idiot. Spell much?

And no, I haven't eaten duck, I love ducks.

[jagerfaust2009]

Don't worry this slaughter killing will eventually come to and end (the shotgun can't controll everything) The sooner the better.....

Then can come the cry baby bonding and counselling when their Rambo equipment goes into the closet :-)

[jagerfaust2009]

@evlrx2 Not getting any attention lately? I see you leave your brain dead comments all over the place. You brain is as obviously as blank as your homepage, which I repeat "A strange homepage you have for such an enthusiastic, bragging big mouth hunter like you". Anyway the comments you do leave most would have the thought as I.. CARE FACTER ZERO...

[jagerfaust2009]

@TheAussieHunter That is a different issue (and you know it) So this is another "validation" argument? All you can come up with? LOL. Whats you're argument about my previous post then? I cant wait........

[TheAussieHunter]

So what about duck hunting on the rice fields ? what argument do you have there ?

[jagerfaust2009]

@TheAussieHunter "Traditions" (lol) Fox hunting, Seal hunting, The Big game hunting, The American Bison (to near extinction) hunting etc etc Want to go back to Bear baiting traditions? Ofcourse there's cruelty in alot of farm practices nutcase thats why people try to change the practices of (some) commercial industries as well as protecting creatures in their NATURAL habitat. Traditions die out when the need just becomes sport, just like the Wild West and the mentality that died with it....

[TheAussieHunter]

It's not slaughter, not even close. If you want to see slaughter maybe you should watch a video on the cattle trade in Indonesia. Duck hunting and hunting in general is a tradition is Australia and throughout the world. . Duck hunters naturally harvest their own meat. If you want to fight for animals rights, maybe take a look at a video called a bloody buisness on the ABC website and refresh your idiotic minds on what the word cruel actually means.

[123456duck1]

And everywhere on Mississippi flyway. what's up with Australian duck rescuers and the ducks in general?

[TheGibsonManiac]

Duck rescuers would be freaking out if they came down to Arkansas. This home of duck hunters.

[Whitetrashmike]

Theres nothing wrong with hunting.

[jagerfaust2009]

Can always tell when I'm close to a hunter, their negative energy is only surpassed by the stink that follows them wherever they go. (also includes their sewer mouths)

[iloveredemptions26]

@jagerfaust2009 Wait wait wait. Did i say i only eat duck? Did i say i dont eat food from the store? No. You can to buy organic meats in the U.S. You have obviously never been hunting or done anything independently without depending on other people to provide your food. If we didnt hunt the ducks. They would over populate, along with all the other animals in the world.

[jagerfaust2009]

Love the hunting lobby's care for the envioronment (erecting nesting box's, cleaning swamps. eradicating predators etc) Would they do this if there were no ducks GMAB. Years ago during the drought, outbreaks of Botulism decimated ducks and other species in alot of Victorian lakes. I was there among others for months doing dirty dangerous work trying to save infected birds and retrieving carcasses to prevent further infection from the maggots. Never saw ONE so called conservational hunter help!