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    A question of balance

    Jun 04, 2019 3 minutes

    I’ve always stressed that the protection of farm crops is the primary reason that we shoot woodpigeons – whether it’s while they’re causing damage or when they return to their home wood to roost, or even while they’re feeding on stubble. We need to control their numbers. We will never kill them all, nor do we want to.

    Balance is essential though, and humans have managed the landscape we live in for centuries. There are estimates of between 10 and 20 million woodpigeons in Britain and their numbers are

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