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Home » Science and research » Assessing the relationship between foxes, game birds and predator control
There is an ongoing debate whether the release of gamebirds increases the numbers of opportunistic predators such as foxes. BASC financially supported a large fieldwork project carried out by GWCT to measure fox activity on estates that release gamebirds, with comparator sites that do not.
The key interim findings of the projects are that:
Gamebird release sites have more red kites, buzzards, and brown hares than non-release sites and non-release sites have more magpies than release sites.
A paper with final results and findings is currently being reviewed.
Woodlands can be managed to promote conservation and shooting through a number of techniques, one of which is creating and maintaining deadwood habitats.
An increased focus on the impacts of woodland herbivores may be needed to enable new woodland to establish,.
From 1 September in Scotland and 1 October in England and Wales it will be a legal requirement to register kept birds, including gamebirds when they are kept.
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