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Hunting in a game preserve

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Hunting in a game preserve

A hunter lines up cock pheasants at a central North Island hunting preserve. Hunters generally move upwind, as the birds take off into the wind. After gaining height, the pheasants tend to turn and glide downwind towards cover.

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Neil Deans, Game birds – Hunting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16721/hunting-in-a-game-preserve (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Neil Deans, published 30 October 2009, updated 20 April 2025.