The Sika - NZ Big Game Records Series Volume One by Bruce Banwell

This is a second-hand copy of the book The Sika - NZ Big Game Records Series Volume One by Bruce Banwell. 

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition. A previous owner has written their name inside the front cover.

Publisher: The Halcyon Press
Year: 1999
ISBN: 9780908685547
Format: Softback
Pages: 137
Condition: Used (Very Good)

The Sika contains all the information you will ever need about Sika deer in New Zealand, looking at the origin, liberation, spread and establishment, present status, location and how to hunt information, as well as listing all known trophies and their Douglas Score statistics as recorded by the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association.

Bruce Banwell has been involved with the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association since 1948. He has been a member of eight different branches, president of three, executive member of four and secretary and treasurer of Southland branch. He is at present Deputy Chief Judge with the responsibility of training the personnel of the National Judging Panel. His hunting and interest have found him in almost every corner of New Zealand where deer are found. His research into this animal as a species has taken him to the majority of deer range of the northern hemisphere from the Hebrides, across the Eurasian continent to Manitoba in Canada and many parts of Asia. He has researched the origins and history of Red deer, Sika, Wapiti, Fallow deer, Rusa, Sambar and Whitetail deer in particular the various species, subspecies and strains that were introduced and acclimatised here in New Zealand. His knowledge of deer has recently been used to send samples of DNA from Otago Red deer believed to be the last remaining pure strain of Cervus elaphus scoticus in the world to the UK so that they can be compared to remaining strains of Red deer in Scotland and Ireland.