It’s a pig of a job shooting corvids

There’s no glamour in shooting on a pig unit, but then that’s not the point. Pest control with a shotgun is a job of work.

In a discussion recently with two well-known professionals in pest control, we agreed that the bag size is not necessarily the measure of the service you have provided. They sound impressive, intimidating even, in the age of Instagram, but making a large bag on a summer pea stubble or similarly attractive field to pigeon may not be the only guide to how successful your day was.

Shooting corvids is a separate and distinct challenge. It is widely recognised that they are some of the wiliest, most intelligent birds in the natural world. They can count and have been documented using tools