Hunters' thanks to BirdLife Malta

The Federation for Hunting and Conservation - Malta (FKNK) would like to thank BirdLife (Malta) for their trust in an FKNK project, namely the Ducks Village on Manoel Island.

BirdLife put Alan Quigley from St Paul's Bay (Birds Of The Same Feather, December 15) in touch with the voluntary FKNK member caretaker of the Ducks Village. Through his expertise and notwithstanding a very stormy, wet and windy day, he managed to capture a female Muscovy duck that had previously gone missing from near Mr Quigley's home. The duck is at present in the company of other duck species at the Ducks Village.

The Ducks Village was a pilot project of the FKNK together with the Gzira local council in the mid-1990s that eventually led to several species of duck being released, mostly by FKNK members, not just at the Village but around most of our islands' seashore. Joe Borg has managed the Village on a voluntary basis since its inception, and the only financial contributions towards the project over the years have always been invested by the FKNK, the Gzira local council and through the public's generosity. Nothing has come from central government or the EU.