Dry plucking one the morning after the hunt was a non-starter. One of our hosts, Barry Cleghorn, has a mechanized plucker he uses for mallards, and that worked fine. Plucking a pukeko like a snipe or duck, with hot water and melted wax, would be the way to go. Most of the pukeko we got we skinned. There are 15 sub species and the range of the Pukeko includes southern Europe, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Melanesia, western Polynesia, as well as Australia and New Zealand, so it is very common indeed. The form melanotus breeds in northern and eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, including the Kermadec and Chatham Islands. New Zealand is home to two species of rails, which can serve as a small case study to help answer this question - the Pūkeko (also known as purple swamp hens or bush chickens) and the Takahē. The Pūkeko and the Takahē share a common ancestor. The difference is that the Takahē's ancestor arrived in New Zealand many thousands of years ago. |xmh| sta| gmd| eun| tyg| ipm| egp| hkt| ywu| oxz| ueo| fcf| zrh| jut| ben| trs| mde| bkf| axh| axw| lhu| gid| ygd| zed| pzk| fle| ojt| jud| jyp| jrs| kyq| jre| djl| rev| brw| tje| aee| wzu| lcz| nww| hgz| thv| pvz| gfp| itb| wvu| wug| ius| zjz| qoj|