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As of 50-hrs prior to the opening of the 2024 duck hunting season, hunting access restrictions are again in force in the Lake Connewarre State Game Reserve (LCSGR) due to the presence of “at least 1 Orange bellied parrot” (www.gma.vic.gov.au). Yup. That’s all it takes. However, duck hunters will still be able to hunt ducks at LCSGR, where most of them hunt-ducks! I’ll take that as a win! (see map below). I’d like to think that Steve Dimopoulos, Victorian government Minister for Outdoor Recreation and Minister for Environment has been reading my orange-bellied-flops-in-the-duck-pond.htmlWhat the FWC? Blog (dated 6/12/2023) and taken my advice😉. In fact, I’d be happy to think he (and his advisers) just had a long-hard think about how to be good outdoor recreation managers and came up with this idea themselves. Either way, I believe it’s a good outcome for duck hunters and for advocates for the Orange bellied parrot. Realistically, those two groups are probably now mutually exclusive after the fiasco in 2023. Let’s hope they can all become one big group of advocates for wetland birds and their habitat again soon.  In 2024 the hatched area will be closed to hunting. Last year the whole reserve was closed and, in my blog, last year I showed why a partial closure east of Tait Point (red line) was really all that was required to separate hunters’ disturbance from Orange bellied parrots.
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