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Real Wild Pheasants

Releasing pheasants at Rotherfield

Pheasants and ticks: our letter in The Courier

RSPB “rigorously neutral” on pheasants? A blog by Sir Jim Paice, GWCT Chairman

Pheasants could suffer painful death following activists’ acts: Our letter to The Times

New survey to investigate the possible impact of gamebird releasing on local reptile populations

By Dr Rufus Sage, Head of Lowland Game Research The GWCT Research department recognises the potential for local populations of certain UK reptile species to be affected by released pheasants and partridges. While there is currently little solid evidence of an effect, it is very plausible that phe...

Response to a new study on ticks, Borrelia bacteria and Lyme disease potential in relation to pheasant release pens

Dr Rufus Sage head of lowland game research and Dr Andrew Hoodless director GWCT research In the late 1990s GWCT worked with researchers at the University of Oxford to investigate the potential for pheasants to harbour Ixodes ricinus ticks and to contract and transmit from and to those ticks, var...

Highlight the benefits of your shoot with a Shoot Biodiversity Assessment

By Alex Keeble, Game & Wildlife Advisor The GWCT has demonstrated through many years of research that good game management can lead to significant benefits to wildlife. Woodlands managed for pheasants tend to support more songbirds and butterflies than non-shooting woods; this is because game...

Optimising your pheasant release pens

By Alex Keeble, Central England Game & Wildlife Advisor Travelling across the country, I witness a variety of pheasant release pens in all shapes and sizes; from temporary top-netted pens releasing a hundred or so pheasant poults to larger, open-topped pens. Release pens should provide a saf...

Predation Control: Can closed seasons work?

By Mike Swan, Senior Advisor Twenty or so years ago I struck up a slightly weird ‘friendship’ with a man who owned a few acres of woodland in Devon, where he lived in a yurt. He was not against shooting, and was positively enthusiastic about my passion for coastal wildfowling, but he hated the bi...