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Study on gamebirds failure to breed

Study on gamebirds failure to breed

Release birds have lower breeding success than wild birds


By Selena Masson

Saturday, 06 February 2010

A new research programme is being launched by The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT)

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is launching a new research programme, which aims to discover why the breeding success rate of released pheasant hens is just 10 per cent of their wild equivalents.

The rest of this article appears in 3rd February issue of Shooting Times.

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