With duck shooting coming so close to being banned, we thought the shooters would be on their best behavior, however, we still had reports from irate residents of shooters:

firing very close to houses, people and livestock;

using boats to flush birds into the air;

standing in a boat to shoot and shooting from a moving boat.

On the few wetlands that Coalition Against Duck Shooting rescuers covered we saw:

shooters not recovering and killing injured birds immediately;

shooters failing to collect wounded birds before targeting more birds;

shooting outside the legal times;

shooters with their families, setting up camps and toilets within 25m of the shoreline;

a large amount of ammunition illegally left unattended;

spent cartridge shells, rubbish and toilet paper littering the wetlands;

a shooter pointed his gun at a rescuer and then fired close by;

a shooter exposed his backside to two female rescuers;

a high profile supporter had three severed duck heads and six wings dumped outside this Kerang resident’s home,

and we recovered illegally shot threatened species, illegally shot protected species, and so called ‘game species’ illegally left uncollected on the wetlands.