ROME: An Italian regional politician said on Tuesday he had reported the son of US President Donald Trump for allegedly killing a protected species of duck while hunting in Venice lagoon.

Veneto region`s counsellor and environmentalist Andrea Zanoni said an online video from Field Ethos, published by the younger Trump and marketed as a `premier lifestyle publication for the unapologetic man`, showed `some people, including Donald Trump Jr, killing various ducks`.

`In the video, Trump Jr is seen with a Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) in the foreground _ a duck that is very rare throughout Europe and protected by the European Union Birds Directive and Italian wildlife protection law,` Zanoni wrote on social media.

Zanoni said killing the protected bird was a crime.

In the video, republished by the Corriere della Sera daily, Trump Jr is seen shooting at ducks from a shelter before addressing the camera.

`Great morning, lots of widgeon, teal. This is actually a rather uncommon duck for the area.

Not even sure what it is in English,` Trump Jr says, pointing to an orange-brown duck among six other dead waterfowl around him.-AFP