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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 8d

Police say tag showed suspicious patterns

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Satellite-tagged Golden Eagles missing near Langholm

Police say tag showed suspicious patterns

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 9d

Two satellite-tagged Golden Eagles, Tarras and Wren, have vanished in Dumfries & Galloway. Police say the data from Tarras’ tag shows “suspicious patterns” before he disappeared near shooting estates. His mate has also gone missing.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12d

The bird shooting industry has had a free pass for too long, watch this space..

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Bird flu prompts renewed call to regulate gamebird release

The RSPB says there has to be stricter rules on releasing millions of gamebirds into the wild.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13d

A few days ago Police Scotland announced that a post-mortem examination and toxicology testing of the body of a Red KIte found in June had revealed that the bird had ingested high levels of rodenticide and had also ingested the banned pesticide aldicarb.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13d

Police Scotland confirmed a Red Kite found in June died after ingesting high levels of rodenticide and the banned pesticide aldicarb.

Red Kite poisoned with banned pesticide

What should we do if we find a posioned bait or bird?

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 Animals and even pets are being targeted and killed all across the UK at increasing rates with catapults & ball bearings according to the RSPCA.

But the media has a bias and is hypocritical about which animals are worth our outage.

👉 Follow us and support us to End Bird Shooting now!

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 16d

Up to 500 birds could be killed in a single day on Stephen Schwarzman’s country estate

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Billionaire with Trump ties criticised over super-sized pheasant shoots

Up to 500 birds could be killed in a single day on Stephen Schwarzman’s country estate

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 16d

Shooting often complains about ‘antis’ maligning their ‘sport’. Damn right we do. Every baleful element of the shooting industry - from factory farming through to eradicating native predators and wildlife crime - deserves to be maligned

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500 pheasants a day: billionaire's Wiltshire shoot raises all sorts of questions

Not least of the clients who support this sort of slaughter

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 27d

🦅 The Yorkshire Dales has ended its “Bird of Prey Partnership” after years of raptors vanishing on grouse moors.

Hen harriers, buzzards, peregrines, red kites, all lost for profit.

Ending a sham scheme isn’t enough. We need action, not excuses.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is mental. Natural England proudly describes Lindisfarne as one of England’s most important National Nature Reserves, home to half the world’s population of Pale-bellied Brent Geese, yet at the same time it allows BASC to raffle off the chance to blast these very birds out of the sky.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yes you read that right.

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BASC raffling ducks and geese to be shot on National Nature Reserve

Lindisfarne NNR is "renowned for its remarkable birdlife and breathtaking landscapes".

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tens of millions of partridges are bred in cages, raised in sheds, and then dumped into fields, just to be shot for fun.

This is all legal. And it’s happening right now across Britain.

We’re campaigning to end bird shooting once and for all. Please follow us and join the fight. ✊🌱

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today marks the start of the partridge shooting season.

Across the country, lines of talentless cowards will stand shoulder to shoulder, blasting thousands of beautiful birds out of the sky for nothing more than their own amusement.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today marks the start of partridge shooting in the UK. Each year, tens of millions of birds are factory-farmed, released, and gunned down — all perfectly legal, with government backing. Most people have no idea this is happening, let alone the scale of killing.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bird shooting culture: after killing, they wipe the blood of the animal on each other’s faces. They call it ‘blooding’. We call it barbaric.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 30

Anyone else see the sick irony in this article? The whole piece glossing over the fact people blasting birds out of the sky for fun should be a bloody rural crime too!

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Police warn rural crime surge as shooting season starts

Police warn of rising rural crime as poachers and trespassers target land, property, and wildlife during the game bird shooting season.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 27

It typically is because some landowners want to kill birds, and the law says they can...

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Why is there shooting in fields near me and is it legal?

It typically is because some landowners want to kill birds, and the law says they can...

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 27

Two Hen Harrier chicks born on National Trust land in the Peak District have been fitted with satellite tags.

Why? Because once they leave their nest, they face one of the deadliest threats in our uplands: grouse moors.

Hen Harriers are relentlessly persecuted.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 26

Two Hen Harriers born on National Trust land in the Peak District National Park have been fitted with satellite tags in a bid to protect them from persecution.

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Two Peak District Hen Harrier chicks satellite-tagged

But why is that headline news?

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 26

No 'licencing lifeline' for an industry that needs banning instead.

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Why we will never support grouse moor licencing

No 'licencing lifeline' for an industry that needs banning instead.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 26

Licensing would shut down debate on banning grouse shooting for decades.

And if such a scheme were introduced here, it would be overseen by Natural England — the same body behind the disastrous Hen Harrier “brood meddling” and long accused of cosying up to the shooting industry.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fires rage across Yorkshire moors and grouse shooting is still fuelling the flames.

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Does controlled moorland burning reduce wildfire risk?

Can small fires prevent larger ones? As moors burn, we speak to gamekeepers and environmentalists.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 24

Moor burning kills wildlife, releases carbon, and destroys wetlands. It must end.

Call it what it is: environmental vandalism for grouse shooting.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 19

Surprise surprise!

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Yet another 'partnership' to protect birds of prey collapses

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority "to pursue different approach to bird of prey persecution".

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · Aug 15

Britain’s countryside is now a playground for the elite, where animals are caged, killed, and dumped—funded by your taxes. This isn’t conservation. It’s cruelty disguised as tradition.

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