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    TAILS YOU WIN WITH CORVIDS

    Feb 24, 2022 5 minutes

    Controlling corvids with an air rifle is often challenging. Birds such as crows, rooks, jackdaws and magpies are sharpeyed and very suspicious of anything out of the ordinary, so persuading them to land within striking distance can be tricky to say the least.

    It’s fair to say that a shotgun is usually the best option when corvids turn up in really big numbers. Where I live, it is not unusual for large flocks of crows, rooks and jackdaws to decimate freshly planted crops after the spring drillings, and efforts to drive them away with the 12-bore frequently produce bags well in excess of 50 birds and often significantly more.

    So when a friend contacted me to say he was having problems with some corvids around the silage clamps on his farm, on my initial

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