
Flight Magazine
This is a repository of the Ducks Unlimited NZ Flight Magazine
published since 1974.
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Issue 191 (0)
October/November 2024
Cover: A bittern hunting at Foxton Beach.
- The great Matuku Muster
- Bird flu: NZ on alert
- DU's founding document

Issue 190 (0)
June/July 2024
Cover: A pāteke, or brown teal, the focus of one of Ducks Unlimited NZ's first projects in 1975. See p11
- 49th AGM & Conference
- Wairio plantings revisited
- A dive into the archives

Issue 189 (0)
February/March 2024
Cover: An Australasian shoveler in flight.
- Landmark year for DUNZ
- Praise for scholarships
- Counting shovelers

Issue 188 (0)
October/November 2023
Cover: A Grey Teal.
- Red tape woes
- Trees for Wairio
- Nest box materials

Issue 187 (0)
June/July 2023
Cover: Entrance to Blue Duck Station, Venue for this year’s AGM and conference.
- 2023 Conference
- Self-reset traps
- Botulism crisis

Issue 186 (0)
February/March 2023
Cover: ‘Hoover Dam’, a wetland at Blue Duck Station, where this year’s AGM and conference will be held.
- On the trail of rats
- AGM in May
- 'Second life' for birds

Issue 185 (0)
October/November 2022
Cover: A bar-tailed godwit on the wing.
- Conference 2022
- Amazing Godwits
- Wairio’s new hide

Issue 184 (0)
June/July 2022
Cover: Spring Valley Enterprises, near Masterton, has a new wetland, which DUNZ helped fund, see story p4-5.
Photo: Lynley Wyeth
- GWRC faces big bill
- Wetlands take shape
- Deep dive for data

Issue 183 (0)
February/March 2022
Cover: A Cape Barren goose at Otorohanga Bird Park, south of Hamilton.
Photo: Sid Mosdell
- Surprise new year's honour
- Three scholarships awarded
- Raising ducklings

Issue 182 (0)
October/November 2021
Cover: An Australasian harrier (Circus approximans) at Wingspan, Rotorua.
Photo: matlacha CC
- Wairio Planting day
- Rules around Hawkes
- Counting Kiwi

Issue 181 (11)
June/July 2021
Cover: A young black swan at Anderson Park, Napier.
Photo: Alison Murray
- Zealandia calling
- Wairio guided tour
- Planting for ponds

Issue 179 (12)
September 2020
Cover: A pair of mallards enjoy the peace and quiet of Te Mome Stream, Petone
Photo: Alfred Memelink, Artspace Gallery
- Ramsar status for Wairio
- 2020 Conference & AGM
- Game camera action

Issue 180 (13)
February/March 2021
Cover: A male New Zealand scaup or pāpango.
Photo: Photo Bernard Spragg
- A pond for pāteke
- Ramsar wetlands
- Bands for birds

Issue 178 (13)
March 2020
Cover: A spoonbill in a canal alongside Linwood Ave, Christchurch
Photo: Bernard Spragg
- DU goes to Gisborne
- Welcome to Jim's world
- World Wetlands Day

Issue 166 (19)
February 2016
- Top honours for Jim Campbell
- 90 not out for Audrey Pritt
- Whio in the limelight

Issue 153 (0)
April 2013
- Broadlands Reward
- Mallards under threat
- Humanitariaan experience
- pateke new start
- Blue duck heroes

Issue 142 (0)
January 2010
Cover Photo: Pateke sighted at Auckland regional Park
- Pond development Barrier Island
- Zealandias Falcons

Issue 141 (0)
October 2009
Cover Photo: Lakelands at Parua Bay, Whangarei
- Stowaway threat to island sanctuaries
- Kimihia opencast re-development benefits wetlands
- Implications for captive breeding of pateke

Issue 140 (0)
July 2009
Cover Photo: Shayne Wilkins with Pateke. Photo: Peter Russell
- 2009 Conference info
- Hedley lake swan drama
- Wairio planting day and photos
- Genetic diversity of NZ threatened birds

Issue 139 (0)
April 2009
Cover Photo: Howard Egan, winner Bill Barrett Trophy, at Wairio: Inset Casey Barnes, Massey student
- Pateke return to Fiordland
- Tawharanui - another Pateke release
- Manawatu Claybird shoot
- Rathmoy Game Preserve

Issue 138 (0)
January 2009
Cover photo: Swan familiy at Huritini. Photo: Wiliam Abel
- DU Conference 2009 preview
- Conference reports
- Shelduck bred
- Wairarapa Wairio Elder control

Issue 137 (0)
October 2008
Cover Photo: Albatross group. Photo: courtesy Brian Strong.
- Conference Summary and photos
- Kiwi reintroductions
- karori Wilflife Sanctuary Conservatio awawrd
- Whio News

Issue 136 (0)
July 2008
Cover Photo: Cape Kidnappers Pateke release.
- Pateke return to Cape Kidnappers
- Conference Notes
- Banrock Roadshow visits
- Taumata Lagoon Hearing

Issue 135 (0)
April 2008
Cover Photo: Pateke release. Inset Minister of Conservation. Photo: peter Isaac
- Tawharanui Peteke release
- Cape Kidnappers conference venue and history
- Wild Duck casserole
- Tapp Wetlands

Issue 134 (0)
January 2008
Cover: Colour-banded Whio - Photo: Enviro Research
- Pateke Release
- Accord signed
- Kahurangi National reserve - Whio

Issue 133 (0)
October 2007
Cover: Grey Duck family Photo: Nga Manu Images
- Wetland Care
- Wairio planting day
- 33rd Conference photos
- Banrock Show photos

Issue 132 (0)
July 2007
Cover Photo: Jim Campbell's elusive swans
- DU AGM 2006 minutes and reports
- Wairio progress and news
- Banrock Benefit

Issue 131 (0)
April 2004
Cover Photo:Black swan female on the attack. Photo: Bruce Lambert
- AGM Information
- Pukaha Mt Bruce Kokako
- Dog proof radio fence
- Waikato wetlands

Issue 130 (0)
January 2004
Cover Photo:Lady Isaac, Patron, Ducks Unlimited
- Royal Swan Release
- Wairio survival report
- Uruguay Trip

Issue 129 (0)
October 2006
Cover Photo: Howard Egan, winner Bill Barrett Trophy, at Wairio: Inset Casey Barnes, Massey student
- 2006 conference photos
- Pond planting for Wildfowl
- Obituaries
- Wet Wairio

Issue 128 (0)
July 2006
Cover photo: photo of takahe shortly after their release by DOC staff on Maungatautari in June 2006
Photo: Phil Brown
- whio report
- Pateke release
- AGM and 2005 reports
- Canada Geese issue

Issue 127 (0)
April 2006
Cover Photo: The Kauri Wetland almost full.
- DU assists Wairakei Pastoral
- Birds endangered
- Pohangina opens to the public
- Our People
- DU News

Issue 126 (0)
January 2006
Cover Photo: DU patron Jim Campbell, DU director Jim Law, Banrock Wines Tony Sharley and DU’s Don Hill at Wairio wetlands.
- Raffle results
- O'hara Wildlife Estate
- Pateke recovery programme
- Brown Teal

Issue 125 (0)
October 2005
Cover Photo: Members on Mangaione trip during board meetiong.
- List of projects
- Ken Cook
- Australian Wetland
- Our dogs
- Our People
- DU News
- Bird life
- In-flight Predators
- Flight Eco-file

Issue 124 (0)
July 2005
Cover Photo: Tony Sharley, banrock Wines and Zena Tei, Colville Primary School. Photo: Nobilo Wines
- 2005 Conference
- Reports
- Projects
- Our dogs
- Pateke feature
- Recipes
- Our People
- DU News

Issue 123 (0)
April 2005
Cover Photo: A corner of the Wairio block, Lake Wairarapa, May 2004. Photo: Wairarapa Times Age
- AGM 2005
- Grey Teal Protection
- Wairio Agreement
- Stoat Trap Wins Award
- Let's keep Ducks
- DU News
- Our People

Issue 122 (0)
January 2005
Cover Grey Duck. Photo: Chris Thomas
- DU welcomes distinguished visitor
- Bill Barret award
- A film-making odyssey
- Wetland Care, Banrock Wines tour
- Lake Waikare report
- reprint: decoying ducks
- Our people
- DU News
- Bird Talk
- Predator file

Issue 121 (0)
October 2004
Cover Photo: Bird's eye view of DU on the handyside property, Te Kopi, South Wairarapa.
- Lifetime Achievement awards
- Strategic Plan
- Ephemeral wetlands
- Our People
- DU NewsBird Talk
- In-flight Predators
- Flight Eco-file

Issue 120 (0)
July 2004
Cover Photo: Lake Waikare, Waikato - in the 1990s
- 2004 Annual reports
- Fist newsletter - front page
- Members' items
- Our People
- DU News
- Bird Talk
- In-flight Predators
- The Poem

Issue 119 (0)
April 2004
Cover Photo: Mincher Wetland, Coatesville
- 30th Conference
- Flood
- Save Forests or cheap clean water
- How to net tourists
- Our people
- DU News
- Bird talk
- Predator file

Issue 118 (0)
January 2004
Cover photo: Pateke family at Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo: John Shorland
- The Captain of Ocean Bay
- Lake Waikare at risk - again?
- David Suzuki: Science matters
- Our people
- DU News
- Bird talk
- In flight - predators

Issue 117 (0)
October 2003
Cover Photo: The Kauri Wetland almost full. Photo: Lois Tapp
- Banrock Station Grant
- 2003 Conference report
- Tapp Wetlands Project
- Lifetime Service awards
- Beginner's luck
- Our People
- DU News
- Predator files

Issue 116 (0)
July 2003
Cover Photo: Blue duck at Egmont National Park Photo: Department of Conservation
- Annual reports
- Mud, Mud, Glorious mud
- International year of freash water
- Our People
- DU News
- Bird Talk
- In-flight Predators
- The Peom

Issue 115 (0)
April 2003
Cover Photo: Millenium Reserve Masterton. Photo: Alan Wilkes
- Pateke Update
- World Wetlands Day
- Sand Country Seaaions
- Our People
- DU News
- Bird Talk
- In-flight Predators
- Flight Eco-file

Issue 114 (0)
January 2003
Cover Photo: Henley Lake, Masterton
- Peacock Springs helps Black Stilt
- MacMaster Trophy winners
- Archey's Frog update
- Banrock Station receives Ramstar awards
- DU News
- Our People
- Bird Talk
- Pests and predators

Issue 113 (0)
October 2002
Cover Photo: Australian Shellduck at the Sanctuary. Photo: Peter Reese
- Conference 2002 reports and AGM minutes
- Banrock Project 2002
- Kaituna Wetland
- What's killing frogs
- Birds of a feather
- Our people
- DU News
- Bird Talk
- Predator file

Issue 112 (0)
July 2002
Cover photo: Pateke family at Waikato Wetland. Photo: Jason Christiensen
- Conference and AGM 2002
- Wetland Card report
- Award winners
- Our people
- DU News

Issue 111 (0)
April 2002
Cover Photo: Ossie Latham
- Conference details
- Operation Pateke report
- The BT report
- Down South
- Birds of a feather
- Our people
- DU News
- Predator file

Issue 110 (0)
January 2001
Cover Photo: Michael and margaret Beddek's pond, Tuakau. Photo: Graham Gurr
- Raffle results
- Lake Waikare and Chatham Islans Brown Teal reports
- Interactions - Creative conservation
- MacMaster Trophy
- In memory of Huia
- Our People
- DU News
- Predator files
- The Poem
- Clippings

Issue 109 (0)
October 2001
Cover Photo: Royal Swan, Stoney oaks Wildlife park. Photo: Gail Simons
- Annual Report 2001
- The Mute Swan of Te Pohue
- Operation Gretel
- Brown Teal
- Farming and copnservation
- An uncertain future: Australian Shelduck in NZ
- Blue Duck: Artificial insemination may hold the key
- DU News
- Our People
- Conservation on the Net

Issue 108 (0)
July 2001
Cover Photo: Royal Swan
- Annual Report 2001
- Basics of Biodiversity
- Weed control without chemicals

Issue 107 (0)
April 2001
Cover Photo: Grace and Favour and cygnets. Stonet oaks Wildlife park Photo: Gail Simons
- Solving problms at Lake Ngaroto
- Lake Waikare
- Wetland health: Botulism
- Lake Care Whangape
- Bringing people and wildlife together: Stoney Oaks Wildlife Park
- Gretel lagoons
- The Goldern Plover
- Our People
- DU News
- Conservation on the Net

Issue 106 (0)
January 2001
Cover Photo: Field trip party at Shaw wetland, Hamilton. Photo: Jack Worth
- In the North American Wetlands
- Launching of WetlandCare New Zealand
- The Waimara wetland developments
- Predator file: The SaF Trap
- wetland facts: Positives and negatives
- Our People
- DU News
- Conservation on the Net
- Drawing: The Blue Penguin

Issue 105 (0)
October 2000
Cover Photo: Kimberley. Photo: Andre Terpstra
- Companies challenged to 'get in the Green'
- Annual conference 2000 report
- Showing them a good time
- A letter to the editor
- Brown Teal released on Mana Island
- Turning profit from ecological disaster
- Our people
- DU News
- Predator file
- Drawing: The Pied cormorant

Issue 104 (0)
July 2000
Cover Photo: Cape Barren Geese. Photo: Howard Egan
- 1999-2000 Annual Reports
- Operation Wetlands
- Blue Duck: articles of interest
- Brown Teal; Release on hold
- In the wet outback
- Our People
- DU News
- Drawing: The Wandering Albatross

Issue 103 (0)
April 2000
Cover Photo: Punakawa wetland,Takaka, Golden Bay. Photo: B Butts
- Restoring wetland Habitat
- Greytown Little Rock
- Stoats: Ecoterrorists on Stewart Island
- A covenant secures the vision
- The Foreman Reserve
- Appeal for Rimutaka Reserve
- National Wetland Centre
- The Nguroa Saga
- Drawing: NZ Frogs
- Predator file
- DU News
- Our People

Issue 102 (0)
January 2000
Cover Photo: Black Swan, Sanctuary Ponds, Galatea. Photo: Andre Terpstra
- The Sanctuary Ponds
- Eketahuna Wetlands
- Chatham Brown Teal
- An Oasis on a landfill
- Updating the Booth Wetland
- Blue Duck of the Manganui a te ao
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News
- Drawing: The Morepork

Issue 101 (0)
October 1999
Cover Photo: 25th annual Conference. Photo: Alan Wilks
- Basil
- DU id happy to help
- 25th Annual Conference Report
- Minutes
- Blue Duck report
- Huntercraft Decoys
- Lake Waikare: Wetland in crisis
- Operation Pateke
- Our Directors
- Our People
- DU News

Issue 100 (0)
July 1999
Cover Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Hintz
- Presidents past and present
- Annual reports
- 25th Anniversary conference
- Where have all the ducks gone?
- DU History in Flight

Issue 99 (0)
April 1999
Cover Photo: Smew at Slimbridge. Photo: Graham Gurr
- Stormwater Mallards
- Wetland values add value
- Blue Duck Conservation
- The Brown Teal of Moturoa
- Twitcher in the Hide
- Mt Albert Grammar's wetland development
- Our people
- DU News
- Predator file
- Drawing: The Pied Stilt

Issue 98 (0)
January 1999
Cover Photo: Brown Teal. Photo: Melvin Pike
- The Mcmaster Trophy
- Predator File
- Wetland Development
- Book Review
- A trick to growing oaks
- Annual conference Preview
- Swanning around
- Abducktion at the Calgary Stampede
- Our People
- DU News
- Drawing: The Black-backed gull

Issue 97 (0)
October 1998
Cover Photo: DU Member Natalie Price and friends. Photo: Paula Price
- A wetland in the metropolis
- 1998 Annual Conference Reports
- Waikato Wetlands
- The Otangaki Wetland Development
- The Sinclair wetlands
- The wetland at Pikihuia
- So, you want to shoot ducks?
- Drawing: The Welcome Swallow
- DU News
- Our People

Issue 96 (0)
July 1998
Cover Photo: Te Awatotoara Creek, Chatham Islands. Photo Grant Dumbell
- Murderous Mustelids
- 1998 Annual Conference Programme
- Annual reports 1997-98
- Wetland development at Shandon Golf Course
- Let's keep ducks
- Can Teal return to the Chathams?
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News
- Drawing: The Australian Bittern

Issue 95 (0)
April 1998
Cover Photo: Mute swan. Photo: Jim Campbell
- A member's urban wetland
- A wetland returns to Opiki
- Will the swan sing?
- The Hawthorn wood wild fowl and wetland reserve
- Of steel shot and other things
- 24th annual Conference
- Art in Flight
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News
- Drawing: the Harrier Hawk

Issue 94 (0)
January 1998
Cover Photo: Carolina or North American wood duck. Photo: Rifleman Productions
- Finding the Mounties
- 1996/97 annual accounts
- The Awapuni lagoon development
- Freeways and mixed bags
- Brown Teal return to Okaihau
- The great duck walk
- Drawing the Fantail
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News
- Flight Shopping

Issue 93 (0)
October 1997
Cover Photo: Conservation Corps servicing nest boxes, Barton's Lagoom, Wairarapa. Photo: Neil Richardson
- Member Profile: Diane Pritt
- 1997 Annual Conference Report
- Conservation with attitude
- Bulldust at the Last frontier
- A bird of a different stamp
- Eight days of Hunting, fishing and shooting with the Sullivans
- Insight
- Our people
- DU News
- Drawing: The NZ shoveler
- In Flight Shopping

Issue 92 (0)
April 1997
Cover Photo: Brown Teal: Tiritiri Matangi Island - Grent Dumbell
- Recognising our large donors
- Book review
- Blue ducks migrate to the UK
- Another DU Wetland
- Game keeping
- Lessons from the Kowhai Flat Blow-out
- Insight
- Our people
- DU News

Issue 91 (0)
July 1997
Cover Photo: another DU Wetland project: William Abel
- Book review
- Annual Conference program
- Annual Reports
- As muddy as you want
- Creatinga wetland at Rangiwahia
- Drawing the Pukeko
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News

Issue 90 (0)
January 1997
Cover Photo: Mute swan and cygnets at Jim Campbell's near Masterton
- Waterfowl at the Auckland Museum
- Madagascar Teal
- What you told us
- Involvement Volunteers NZ
- From the 19th at Carterton
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News

Issue 89 (0)
October 1996
Cover Photo: Canadian Geese about to land: Photo: Scott Nielsen
- 1995/96 Annual accounts
- The Andrew dixon MacMaster Trophy
- Foreman's Reserve at Tannery Corner
- 1996 Annual Conference
- DowElanco and Ducks Unlimited: A partnership for Blue Duck Conservation
- the Simplicity Waterfowl Feeder

Issue 88 (0)
July 1996
Cover Photo: Mallard taking flight: Photo Scott Nielsen
- Annual Conference program 1996
- Annual reports
- The Great Greytown Water Race Duck race
- Insight
- Our People
- DU News

Issue 87 (0)
April 1996
Cover Photo: Bill Clinton-Baker feeding waterfowl on his pond in Gladstone Wairarapa
- Annual Conference programme 1996
- The restoration of Home Lagoon
- Who's wetland is it anyway?
- Board but not bored
- Anatidae 2000 - a waterfowl talkfest

Issue 86 (0)
January 1996
Cover Photo: Blue Duck breeding pair and captive bred duckling at Russell Langdon's, Ashburton
- The Booth Wetland
- The sad, sad saga of the sex starved goose
- Building and erecting nest boxes for Grey Teal

Issue 85 (0)
October 1995
Cover Photo: Water Supply Lake North of Marton
- MacMaster Trophy
- Pearce's Wetlands
- AGM
- Annual Report

Issue 84 (0)
July 1995
Cover Photo: Noisy Neighbors - Some of the hundreds of mallard waiting for release through Auckland Bird Rescue
- New home for Blue Duck and Brown Teal
- DowElanco's Winning Formula
- Could Fishing Help Save the Blue Duck

Issue 83 (0)
April 1995
Cover Photo: Task Force Green Leading Hand, Andrew Morton
- National Wildlife Center update
- Island in the Sun

Issue 82 (0)
January 1995
Cover Photo: Student from Russel Primary School releases a female Brown Teal in the Bay of Islands
- The story behind DU's duck head logo
- Campbell Island Teal at Mt Bruce
- DO Project - Carterton Golf Club

Issue 81 (0)
September 1994
Cover Photo: Two of the Masterton Intermediate Monitors at work
- 2000 km for DU
- QEII National Covenants
- 20th Conference Weekend Highlights

Issue 80 (0)
July 1994
Cover Photo: Dave Johnston, Supervisor - Royal Swan - with charges
- DUNZ 1993/94 annual report

Issue 79 (0)
April 1994
Cover Photo: Eric Fox, curator of Otorahanga Kiwi House
- DU Australia visited
- Kiwis and native birds thriving

Issue 78 (0)
January 1994
Cover Photo: Canada Goose Banding
- Canada Goose Banding
- New directions for Brown Teal

Issue 77 (0)
October 1993
Cover: Malards. Photo David Mathieson
- Waging War on Wetlands
- Annual Conference
- S.W.A.M.P.
- DU News

Issue 76 (0)
July 1993
Cover Photo: Blue Ducks - Photo: David Mathieson
- Wairarapa Wetlands
- Charting our Course
- Annual Reports
- DU News

Issue 75 (0)
April 1993
Cover Photo: The Makerua Swamp - DU In Action. Photo: Ken Cook
- Honker History
- The Makerua Swamp
- Annual Conference
- DU News

Issue 74 (0)
January 1993
Cover Photo: Pukeko. Photo by Alan Kneebone
- Trees for birds
- Grey Teal Nest boxes
- Pseudotubercolis in Waterfowl
- DU News

Issue 73 (0)
October 1992
Cover Photo: Jim Cambell presents Neil Hayes with the Bill Barrett Trophy. Photo: Di Wilks
- 100 mile house DU dinner
- 1992 AGM
- Chestnut Teal in NZ
- DU News

Issue 72 (0)
July 1992
Cover Photo: Brown Teal by Pauline Morse
- Wetland Link
- DU Australia
- Murapara Magic
- Aims and Objectives
- DU News

Issue 70 (0)
December 1991
- Ducks Unlimited Canadian Style
- Lead Shot
- Advantages of Mark 6 Fenn
- Project Reports
- DU News

Issue 68 (0)
June 1991
Cover Photo: The 1991 DU ArtPrint
- President's report
- Going to Pot
- Wetland Link International
- DU News

Issue 67 (0)
March 1991
Cover Photo: Blue Duck hatchlings as Melvin Pike's Aviary (Photo N.Hayes)
- President's report
- Campbell Island Teal
- Seasonal Breeding
- DU News

Issue 66 (0)
December 1990
Cover Photo: Pateke Lagoons, (Photo: Lloyd Homer)
- President's report
- Pateke report
- Mallard management
- Scaup progress
- DU News

Issue 65 (0)
September 1990
Cover Photo: Jim Campbell receiving a Royal Swan Award from President Neil Hayes
- President's report
- Grey Teal study
- Predator control
- Ashley Downsl
- Blue Ducks

Issue 64 (0)
June 1990
Cover Photo: The Blue Duck Painting by Paul Martinson
- President's report
- Brown Teal
- NZ Scaup
- Financial statements
- DU News

Issue 62 (0)
December 1989
Cover Photo: Brown Teal in the wild and in captivity - an adaptable bird
- President's report
- Waterfowl Introductions
- Escaping Fitch
- Membership survey

Issue 61 (0)
September 1989
Cover Photo: Blue Duck and young at Arundel Wildfowl Trust U.K.
- President's report
- Planting a flight pond
- Predator control
- Blue Ducks

Issue 60 (0)
June 1989
Cover Photo: The Shoveler Painting by Russell Jackson - in this year's raffle
- Mallard Management in NZ
- DU News
- Parasitic laying amog Grey Teal
- Grey Teal nest boxes
- Letters

Issue 59 (0)
March 1989
Cover Photo: The Sinclair Wetlands Educational center
- President's report
- DU News
- Project reports
- The Mallard in NZ
- Trapping the enemies of game
- The value of re-introduction to Bird Conservation

Issue 58 (0)
December 1988
- President's report
- DU News
- Financial report
- The Pearce wetlands
- DU International visitors

Issue 57 (0)
June 1988 (also named issue 56)
- President's report
- DU News
- The AGM
- Brown Teal expedition
- Brown Teal Survey

Issue 55 (0)
March 1988
Cover photo: Horrie shows Sir Paul Reeves the Wetlands
- Letters
- DU News
- Sinclair Wetlands opening
- Diary of a Pond
- President's report

Issue 54 (0)
December 1987
- Two letters to DU
- Open day at Peacock springs
- D.U. News
- President's report
- Financial statement
- Minutes of 13th AGM

Issue 53 (0)
September 1987
- President's report
- Threat to Brown Teal
- Project reports
- Rearing Waterfowl
- DU News
- Financial Report
- AGM Report

Issue 52 (0)
June 1987
Cover Photo: Scaup chicks being reared under a bantam. Photo by: Gary Girvan
- President's report
- Brown Teal Research
- Project reports
- News from the chapters
- DU News

Issue 51 (0)
March 1987
- President's report
- DU News
- Project reports
- News from the Chapters
- Masterton Intermediate School
- Brown Teal report

Issue 50 (0)
December 1986
- President's report
- DU News
- Project reports
- Govt wetlands Policy
- Nga Manu Trust

Issue 49 (0)
September 1986
- Annual Conference
- DU News
- Minutes of Annual Conference
- Brown Teal Research project
- Home lagoon project

Issue 48 (0)
June 1986
- THC Wairakei
- D.U. News
- 'Royal Swan' Project
- Winstone afforestation
- President's report
- Financial statement

Issue 47 (0)
March 1986
- Dream come truei
- D.U. News
- Waterfowl and wetlands in Australasia
- Brown Teal research
- President's report

Issue 46 (0)
December 1985
- President's column
- D.U. News
- Project reports
- Redcliff Wetlands
- Brown Real reseach

Issue 45 (0)
September 1985
Cover picture: Grey Teal, Photo Gary Girvan
- President's column
- D.U. News
- Project reports
- History created
- 1985 Conference minutes

Issue 40 (0)
June 1984
- 1984 AGM
- President's report
- Financial statement
- The aliens
- DU News & Project reports
- Brown Teal research

Issue 31 (0)
March 1982
- The Grey Teal 'transmission'
- Nga Manu Trust opening
- Operation Pateke
- Wildlife Reseach liaison group
- Upcoming events

Issue 30 (0)
March 1982
- Brown Teal breeder award
- 1982 conference preliminary details
- Brown Teal breeders
- DU Project reports

Issue 28 (0)
June 1981
- President's annual report
- Aluminium smelter - viewpoint
- Guest author - Dr Murray Williams
- DU conference
- Project reports
- News

Issue 26 (0)
December 1980
- Brown Teal released at Matakana Is.
- NZ Waterfowl status
- Canada Goose management
- Operations Branta and Gretel

Issue 23 (0)
March 1980
- Brown Teal liberation
- Rare Blue duck reared
- Operation Gretel and Branta
- Project reports
- News

Issue 22 (0)
December 1979
Cover: Operation Gretel at Dunedin
- Mobil environmental Award
- Guest edititorial
- Symposium: Rare and endangered species
- Observations on the shooting sports
- News

Issue 21 (0)
September 1979
- DU receives Environmental grant from Mobil Oil and MoRS
- Call for Keemen
- Report and photographs: DU annual conference
- News and photographs - Operation Gretel & Pateke

Issue 20 (0)
June 1979
- President's annual report
- Annual conference
- Subsidies for new ponds
- DU project reports
- The hunter's future and responsibility (USA)

Issue 19 (0)
March 1979
- DU contributes to NX Export drive
- Operation Gretel Dunedin
- Conference 79
- Project reports

Issue 17 (0)
September 1978
- Annual conference - report & photos
- DU Board appoints two further directors
- Keemen of the year announced
- Operation Gretel
- DU exhibits at NZ Deerstalkers exhibition

Issue 16 (0)
June 1978
- President's annual report
- Conference details
- Operation Gretel photos and report
- Wild and scenic rivers policy - subissions

Issue 15 (0)
March/April 1978
- Operation Blue Duck
- Operation Gretel - expansion
- Canada Geese
- Rare Brown Teal

Issue 14 (0)
December 1977
- Operation Gretel - Success!
- Operation HQ
- Operation Branta
- Operation Pateke
- New species of waterfowl!

Issue 12 (0)
June 1977
- Operation Branta launched
- International conference presentation
- Conference Auction list

Issue 11 (0)
March 1977
- DU (Canada) Chairman visits NZ
- Operation Gretel Report
- Operation Pateke report
- Mallard Nest box
- The art of thinking 'Duck'

Issue 10 (0)
December 1976
- NZ founder departs
- TV1 to film wildlife
- DUNZ joins World Wildlife Fund
- Operation Pateke report

Issue 08 (0)
June 1976
- USA National President visits NZ
- Operation HQ
- Project Keemen Reports
- Dudley Bell's travel diaries
- Wellington Conference report

Issue 07 (0)
March 1976
- DU Canada director visit
- News from the USA
- Operation HQ announced
- Project reports
- 1976 annual conference details

Issue 06 (0)
December 1975
- Great Xmas ideas
- President's Xmas message
- Project reports - Pateke and Gretel

Issue 05 (0)
September 1975
- Conference report
- New directors
- Operation Gretel report
- Operation Pateke and Keemen reports

Issue 03 (0)
Issue 1/75
- Sir Keith Holyoake award
- Game fair Auckland
- Operation Gretel report
- Dudley's Diary

Issue 02 (0)
Issue 2/1974
- Operation Gretel
- Sir Keith Holyoake award
- AGM announced
- Membership hits 100
- Dudley's diary

Issue 01 (0)
August 1974
- Inaugural DUNZ Newsletter
- Operation Gretel announced
- Dudley's diary
- Who's who at DU