Sporting Gun Magazine November 2017 Edição anterior

WISE WINTER WOODIES AND HOW TO DECOY THEM
Sportsmen and women are being asked to refrain from shooting woodcock until 1st December, in new guidelines issued by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). This is due to concern that shooting may be a factor in the decline of home breeding birds. The UK breeding woodcock population has suffered a range contraction of fifty six per cent since 1970, and breeding surveys between 2003 and 2013 showed an estimated twenty nine per cent decline – moving the woodcock to red status on the UK’s Birds of Conservation Concern list in December 2015.