[registration_form]These results show that shooting has a greater non-lethal effect on crows than trapping. While trapping may be a more efficient way of removing crows than shooting, shooting not only reduces the number of nuisance animals directly, but also affects their behaviour and habitat use so that damage is reduced indirectly.
https://bioone.org/journals/Ornithological-Science/volume-19/issue-2/osj.19.125/Alert-and-Flight-Initiation-Distances-of-Crows-in-Relation-to/10.2326/osj.19.125.short
Surely shooting at, but missing, Crows has a greater non lethal effect ?, something i can easily relate to.
I can only access the abstract and would like to know what habitat and what damage the birds studied were doing? To compare with UK Carrion Crows in open-ish countryside, ours just continue to operate as normal knowing to keep at least 200m from the-man-with-a-gun. They can spot a gun in hand at long distances, can always tell if you are watching them and can differntiate which vehicles mean danger. Amazing really.