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Hundreds of different invertebrate species live within cropped fields, but fortunately, few ever become pests because they are killed by other invertebrates, their natural enemies. However, insecticides are toxic to most arthropods including the natural enemies and insects important as bird food....
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Q: Is there a conflict between grouse and harriers, and where does that leave us?A: The Joint Raptor Study (1992-1996) showed that without new kinds of management, such as diversionary feeding and brood management, you cannot have viable grouse shooting alongside large numbers of hen harriers. No...
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Perdix perdix
The grey partridge was originally a bird of temperate steppe grasslands. It has adapted readily to open arable landscapes and, accordingly, vastly expanded its range as agricultural development spread westwards across Europe over the last eight millennia. After the last Ice Age, the...
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Lepus timidus
Mountain hares have a very wide, virtually circumpolar distribution extending throughout the tundra regions of Russia, northern Europe, Greenland and Iceland, with the closely related Arctic hare (Lepus articus) in Canada and Alaska. In the Old World their habitat extends southward ...
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The protection of wild game by gamekeepers has by tradition involved the control of those predators that kill gamebirds or rob their nests. While some ecologists up to the late 1970s believed predation losses to be of little or no consequence to prey populations our experimental studies have demo...
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This November, we were delighted to welcome visitors from the Contracts2.0 initiative to the Game & Wildlife Scotland Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran.
Comprising 26 partners across 12 European countries, delegates were in Aberdeen to attend a cross-working party meeting. The main objective o...
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In agricultural grasslands, the application of lime is not uncommon to help maintain relatively high pH to encourage grass growth. There is some concern that this practice is waning in some areas of Scotland due to the cost of the activity and that this might have a knock-on effect on biodiversit...
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