Robert Borsak and his friends want to slaughter this little brown duck and Barry O'Farrell said, Sure, go ahead!

Pink-eared Duck

Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Anatidae

approx. 38-40 cm in length

 carnivorous & mostly consumes aquatic invertebrates, primarily chironomid larvae

prefers to breed on receding floodwaters and forage on wetland margins

[Floodplain Wetland Biota in the Murray-Darling Basin, 2011]

 

Will the NSW Premier admit the Government got it wrong?  Will he remove the Pink-eared Duck from the Shooters and Fishers kill list?  asks the Clarence Valley Conservation Coalition on 10 June 2013.

 

Female Pink-eared Duck with ducklings

 

Not content with the O'Farrell Government opening up National Parks in New South Wales to hunters and passing the Game and Feral Animal Control Further Amendment Act 2012 to allow the killing of 14 native birds species on private land, Robert Borsack MLC now appears to have green lighting the re-introduction into the Australian community of semi-automatic weapons on his wish list.