Trump Jr can be seen shooting ducks from a foxhole in a lagoon in the video from Field Ethos, an outdoor lifestyle publication he co-founded. In one clip, he points at a distinctive rusty orange duck among the bodies of half a dozen waterfowl.
“This is actually a rather uncommon duck for the area,” he says. “Not even sure what it is in English, but incredible shoot.”
The ruddy shelduck, known in India as the Brahminy duck, is a migratory bird that winters in south Asia and breeds in south-east Europe. Its global conservation status is not under threat but environmentalists have raised concerns about its future as climate breakdown
shifts its breeding range.
Zanoni said killing the protected bird was a crime and questioned Trump Jr’s right to hunt in
Italy as a non-resident.
Massimo Buconi, the president of the Italian Hunting Federation, pushed back on the claim that foreigners were not able to hunt in Italy but said the law would have indeed been broken if the bird in the video was confirmed as a ruddy shelduck.
“At a glance it looks like a ruddy shelduck,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s protected in America, but in Europe, and in Italy, it is protected. You cannot hunt it.”