Ducks wing their way into NSW parly

Six fluffy ducklings have spent their day in the NSW Parliament as an upper house cross-bencher prepares to try to block hunters from shooting native ducks at night.

A regulation allowing night-time duck hunting near crops was quietly passed by the government last month.

Greens MP David Shoebridge, who plans to move a disallowance motion in the state's upper house that would quash that regulation, said it was hard enough for bird hunters to make clean kills during daytime.

"Let's give these little guys a safe rest at night," he told reporters, as baby Wood ducks chirped at his side.

"One in four ducks that are shot during daytime duck-hunting are wounded and aren't killed outright.

"They die a slow and agonising death over the days or weeks afterwards. When you're shooting at night, when your visibility is far more restricted, the number of ducks wounded is just going to increase."

He said it would be harder to tell game birds from protected ducks.