Here’s a dead Pheasant. Something will come along and eat it (although since it is surrounded (for a distance of far more than 500m in all directions) by grouse moor the density of scavenging birds and mammals might be quite low. A good bet for the destination of quite a lot of roadkill gamebirds is…
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Gamebirds victory (7) – a very big pile of poo
The issue of the droppings of 60 million released gamebirds was not one that was large in my mind when I started thinking about Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges but that is because I am a blinkered ornithologist. What has emerged (see previous blog) is that those droppings are a great threat to many habitats: while…
Gamebirds victory (6) – there is no evidence?
Tim Bonner made an extraordinarily brash claim on Today on Saturday; There is no evidence whatsoever that Pheasant or Red-legged Partridge are doing any significant damage to these special sites. There is simply no evidence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p0fj It is unlikely that DEFRA would have been forced to bring in regulation of gamebird releases (by Wild Justice’s…
Another bird flu outbreak
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All 13,000 birds kept at this site near Frodsham will be killed. This outbreak is of a different strain of bird (poultry) flu from that also announced yesterday in Kent. The DEFRA announcement has plenty of emphasis on the role of wild birds and see here for more information on a couple of Mute Swans…
Waitrose and lead in game meat
You may easily have missed this statement on the Waitrose website! In fact, it took me 15 minutes to find it and I was told that it was there and what the wording was. You certainly wouldn’t find it easily if, for example, you’d heard that Waitrose had gone lead-free and you wanted to buy…