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“I was cleaning up the dead birds from around the edge of the pond when I saw this shoveler duck . I knew he was going to burst out of the trees at some stage, so I was ready for him, and I managed to get him in flight,” Winter said.
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Marlborough photographer Matt Winter autographs 250 copies of his print for NZ Post. Winter said it was difficult to get the underside of a shoveler duck as they moved so quickly in flight. “The hardest thing with that sort of shot is getting the camera to focus on a moving subject. Imagine a duck flying, it is pretty quick and you don t know exactly where he’s going.
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Sunday, 20 December 2020, 8:08 am
Wetlands throughout the country will benefit from the
Government’s One Billion Trees Programme which will be
sued to create habitat for wildlife and help offset carbon
emissions.
The NZ Game Bird Habitat Trust (GBHT) has
been granted $360,000 over three years to establish
plantings on projects the trust supports around New
Zealand.
GBHT chair Andy Tannock says this is a
significant boost for wetland habitat projects and
complements the trust’s goals . People are becoming
increasingly aware of the benefits wetlands provide through
habitat for wildlife, water-quality management, flood
mitigation, aesthetics and recreational harvest
opportunity, he says.