A shoot can have perfect holding, nesting and brood-rearing habitat. It can have the world’s best and most protected release pens and the best of foods on tap. But without predation control the success of our wild birds would be severely limited and the returns on our reared birds greatly reduced.
This is why the trapping and shooting of small mammals such as stoats and weasels; Larsen trapping of carrion crows and magpies to lessen the effects their predation has on red-listed birds; and the snaring and cage trapping of foxes to reduce their numbers prior to the nesting season is a vital part of what we do.
If you add the control of rats to reduce the predation of eggs and chicks of wild birds —
