hunting pressure Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Understanding hunting of migrant birds

By Andrew Hoodless|2026-10-06T16:47:43+01:009 Nov 2026|bird movements, hunting pressure, IBIS, isotopes|

Feather stable isotopes reveal the origins of Woodcock and proportion of resident birds in hunter bags

Wild Duck

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-07-27T00:00:48+01:0027 Jul 2025|captive-breeding, extinction, Galliformes, game bird, History of Ornithology, hunting pressure, waterbirds|

Domestication and the Mallard

Worried about the Greenland White-fronted Goose

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-02-04T11:34:43+00:009 Feb 2023|adult survival, agriculture, annual cycle, Bayesian modelling, breeding success, hunting pressure, Migration, overwintering, population dynamics, ringing, waterbirds|

Why has this goose population declined since 2000?

Draft obituary for the Masked Finfoot?

By Graham Appleton|2021-03-31T12:48:15+01:005 Apr 2021|Bird Protection, bird-human interactions, endangered, habitat degradation, hunting pressure, persecution, protected areas, wetlands|

A maximum of 300 Masked Finfoots in ten countries

Illegal bird killing persists in eastern Spain

By Jorge Crespo|2021-02-09T09:41:36+00:0015 Feb 2021|Bird Protection, birds of prey, endangered, hunting pressure, illegal killing|

Persecution of protected species is declining, but is still a problem

Houbara need more than captive breeding

By Robert J. Burnside|2021-02-11T14:44:34+00:0019 Nov 2018|captive-breeding, hunting pressure, News, population reinforcement, sustainable hunting|

If Asian Houbara are to survive, hunting must be controlled

Impacts of driven shooting of Red Grouse

By Steve Dudley (he/him)|2016-03-28T07:30:00+01:0028 Mar 2016|Conservation, hunting pressure, land management, moorland, moorland birds, News, red grouse, upland birds|

Management of Red Grouse moors

Mitigation or Compensation: Captive-breeding Houbara

By Robert J. Burnside|2021-11-26T14:01:02+00:0014 Mar 2016|captive-bred, captive-breeding, Conservation, geolocator, gps tags, hunting pressure, re-introduction, tracking|

Can captive-breeding support the hunted Asian Houbara?