More than 800 ducks, many endangered, were killed and abandoned by hunters in an act criticised by Game Victoria as ‘appalling’. The slaughter embarrassed even the most hard-headed of hunters. More than 800 abandoned duck carcasses that shooters did not bother to pick up. At least 150 endangered ducks killed, many among Australia’s rarest. And other dead birds – hawk-like whistling kites and black swans – that look nothing like ducks.

You can read the full story from The Age, 13 May 2013 here.