This page is designed to be an index, an overview of Game Bird collection. Other pages are found via the links below.
Game Bird Habitat Page One - 1994 - 1999.
Game Bird Habitat Page Two - 2000 - 2009.
Game Bird Habitat Page Three - 2010 - 2019.
Game Bird Habitat Page Four - 2020 - 2029.
The New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust, established under the 1953 Wildlife Act, exists primarily to improve New Zealand game bird habitat, and secondarily to improve the habitat for other wildlife. The key purpose of the Game Bird Habitat Trust Board is to distribute funding for the development and enhancement of wetland habitat for the benefit of game birds and other wetland inhabitants.
The New Zealand Fish and Game Council commenced issuing $10 license stamps in 1994. The stamp is affixed to the game bird hunter's license thus validating the license for the current year. $2 of the license fee goes towards establishment and protection of Game Bird Habitats. The stamps and related products such as miniature sheets and First Day Covers are also marketed by NZ Post with funding received going back to the Habitat Trust.
Before we view the stamps themselves I thought it might be useful to show you how they were used. These are from the 1995 & 1996 seasons and notice that each carries the current Game Bird stamp for that season.
Examples of Hunting licences with game bird stamps 1994 - 1996.
Why Game Bird Stamps?
I first saw these stamps on the NZ Post website a few months ago (March 2014). A web search revealed a few extra years to the ones offered by NZ Post. Since it seemed an impossible exercise to find all of these stamps, or for that matter even establish how many years they had been issued, I dropped the project in favour of many others I could complete. Yesterday I found them all except the year 2011 which I just happened to have already so now I am able to feature them in a post on this blog.The date shown under each stamp relates to the year of issue of the stamp, not the year the license expires as shown on the stamp itself.
1994 - Paradise Shelduck.
1995 - New Zealand Shoveler.
1996 - New Zealand Grey Duck.
1997 - Black Swan.
1998 - Canada Goose.
1999 - Californian Quail.
2000 - Mallard.
2001 - Ring-Necked Pheasant.
2002 - Pukeko.
2003 - Grey Teal.
2004 - Paradise Shelduck.
2005 - Chukar.
2006 - New Zealand Scaup.
2007 - Brown Quail.
2008 - Red-Legged Partridge.
2009 - New Zealand Shoveler.
2010 - Mallard.
2011 - Ring-Necked Pheasant.
2012 - Bobwhite Quail.
2013 - Australian Bitten.
2014 - Pukeko.
2015 - Black Swan.
2016 - New Zealand Grey Duck.
2017 - California Quail.
2018 - Mallard.
2019 - Chukar.
2020 - Paradise Shelduck.
2021 - Shoveler / kuruwhengi.
Never knew they had such nice stamps on the Licences.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are beautiful stamps, aren't they.
DeleteHi, I can see the Game Bird index, but the link says ‘page not found’. Love your website though. Great work.
ReplyDeleteHi, I can see the Game Bird index, but the link says ‘page not found’. Love your website though. Great work.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog! You used to have additional information on each Game Bird stamp issue, but that page is no longer visible?
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