Non-native gamebirds (pheasants & red-legged partridges) comprise approx half of all wild bird biomass in Britain

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The annual mass release of millions of non-native gamebirds (pheasants and red-legged partridges) for shooting has long been of interest to those of us who care about raptor conservation, because the vast majority of illegal raptor persecution in the UK is undertaken by gamekeepers whose job is to ‘protect’ the gamebirds long enough for them […]

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