Waitakere / Swanson Leader Board

Waitakere / Swanson Leader Board

Who is the Best trapper in all of Swanson and Waitakere. These are total counts for these species. These are tallied from our Trap.NZ project. Join our project HERE.

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Leader board Detail

Rodents – waitakdan – 435
Pest Birds – stub – 22
Hedgehogs – Trapper Trev – 40
Mustelids – Wak Trapper – 4
Rabbits – DBainbridge – 211
Possums – waitakdan – 87

Up and Coming Trappers

Rodents

Wak Trapper – 312
tjsworldnz – 160
Wandering Farmer – 147

Pest Birds

Wak Trapper – 18
Wandering Farmer – 15
waitakdan – 6

Hedgehogs

greghoskins89 – 28
waitakdan – 20
Wak Trapper – 18

Mustelids

Wandering Farmer – 4
Rozzy1 – 4
Trapper Trev – 1

Rabbits

waitakdan – 27
PESTSQUAD – 7
tjsworldnz – 5

Possums

Wak Trapper – 71
stefan.marks – 57
Wandering Farmer – 28

Best Trappers (All Time)

  1. waitakdan (575)
  2. Wak Trapper (423)
  3. DBainbridge (265)

The Trapper of the month is on hiatus

“The trapper of the month” contest isn’t doing what’s it was designed to do. Ie “Encourage people to get out and set traps to help the native bird”.

Does anyone got any ideas how we can get more people out there setting traps? Who knows if trapper numbers increase, we may bring it back. But as it stands March 2023 will be the last month.

Best Trappers – March 2023

Leader board Detail

Rodents – TimLawton – 32
Hedgehogs – greghoskins89 – 2
Mustelids – cole.maree – 1
Possums – waitakdan – 4
Rabbits – DBainbridge – 16

Up and Coming Trappers

Rodents

waitakdan – 23
Wak Trapper – 15
Wandering Farmer – 12

Hedgehogs

stefan.marks – 1

Mustelids

Wak Trapper – 1

Possums

Wak Trapper – 4
stefan.marks – 4
bushviews – 1

Next Months Prize from Dead Rat

Dead Rat Ltd sponsor the Trapper of the Month Contest. The winner will receive a 20 Gift Card.

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Best Trapper – Overall (By Month)

MonthTrapper
Mar 2023TimLawton (32)
Feb 2023waitakdan (16)
Jan 2023waitakdan (23)
Dec 2022waitakdan (21)
Nov 2022waitakdan (30)
Oct 2022waitakdan (31)
Sep 2022DBainbridge (25)
Aug 2022Jblankley (20)
Jul 2022waitakdan (21)
Jun 2022waitakdan (33)
May 2022Wak Trapper (29)
Apr 2022tjsworldnz (23)
Mar 2022Waitakdan (40)
Feb 2022Waitakdan (27)
Jan 2022Waitakdan (19)
Dec 2021Trapper Trev (15)
Nov 2021Laelia Lodge (22)
Oct 2021Wak Trapper (15)
Sep 2021Trapper Trev (18)
Aug 2021tjsworldnz (24)
July 2021tjsworldnz (12)
June 2021Wandering Farmer (13)
May 2021Rozzy1 (6)
April 2021Wak Trapper (30)
March 2021Wak Trapper (18)
February 2021Wak Trapper (17)

2 thoughts on “Waitakere / Swanson Leader Board

    • Great effort guys!! Going to use the tunnel trap plans to create some rat trap tunnels

      • Sounds Great Mike, looking forward to hearing you results. Yes the Tunnel traps work well, for mice and Rats I have been finding.

        Make sure they are stable and on a flat piece of ground, you want to Rodent to be comfortable being in the tunnel.

        Thanks…Gary

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