Sentences with phrase «hen harriers»
"Hen harriers" refers to a type of bird species commonly known for hunting and eating small animals, especially birds. Full definition
Grouse managers want to maximize the number of birds available for shooting, and see any predation by hen harriers as a threat.
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According to Redpath: «The model suggested that across the grouse moors of England there was room for 70 pairs of hen harriers at relatively low cost for grouse shooting.»
Deemed as one species spread across different continents, scientists confirm that the Eurasian Hen Harrier and the American Northern Harrier are in fact two distinct species.
In 2014, Gardiner gave his support to the first annual Hen Harrier Day demonstrations in Derbyshire to highlight the illegal persecution of UK raptors.
BASC has welcomed an announcement by Natural England today that it has issued a licence permitting the trial of a brood management scheme for hen harriers.
He added: «Our research has the potential to improve the way we manage conflicts between wildlife conservation and agricultural activities — not just involving large grazing bird species — but perhaps lions which prey on livestock in rural Africa, or hen harriers feeding on economically valuable grouse in the UK.»
«Ecology could break deadlock between grouse shooting, hen harrier conservation on UK moorlands.»
As another grouse shooting season begins, research out today in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology shows ecology could help break the decades - long deadlock between grouse shooters and conservationists seeking to protect hen harriers on UK moorlands.
Hen harriers eat grouse and are illegally killed, so despite being legally protected the birds have all but disappeared on moorland managed for intensive grouse shooting.
The standoff between grouse managers and hen harrier conservationists is one of the UK's most bitter and contentious wildlife conflicts.
From a conservation point, the work shows the European Hen Harrier is not the same as the American Northern Harrier and should receive appropriate recognition and protection.
«Genomics reveals Hen Harrier is two distinct species.»
It includes drawings by inmates of a high - security prison; a vast mural of William Morris sinking oligarch Roman Abramovich's yacht in the Venetian lagoon; and another in which a giant hen harrier crushes a Land Rover.
In the first of three huge murals he shows the tax haven of Jersey being being burnt to the ground; another invokes the spirit of William Morris about to smash Roman Abramovich's yacht; a third mural conjures a giant bird of prey to crush a royal Range Rover in revenge for the killing of rare hen harriers at Sandringham.
Rob Harrison outlines some new Ethical Consumer research around hen harriers, greed and biodiversity on England's grouse shooting estates.
The study, published as the cover article in BioMed Central's Avian Research, led by the Earlham Institute and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, explores the phylogenetic relationship between two forms of Harriers (Circus cyaneus); the Eurasian Hen Harrier (C. c. cyan ecus) and the American Northern Harrier (C. c. hudsonius) to distinguish their ancestry and evolution.
«These genetic indicators distinguish the Hen Harrier and its close relative the Northern Harrier, genetically as well as morphologically, suggesting geographical isolation is enough to form two distinct lineages,» added Dr Etherington.
Lead - author and conservation genomics expert Dr Graham Etherington in the Di Palma Group at EI, said: «Molecular phylogenetics was applied to the Hen Harriers and the Northern Harriers to see if genetics could shed some light on whether the accepted morphological nuances between the species indeed represent a genuine distinction.
To understand the Hen Harrier species» genetic make - up is of extreme importance to its future and will help aid the national conservation efforts such as the RSPB's Hen Harrier LIFE project.
Further evidence from another study which provided additional data for Dr Etherington's paper also found that Northern Harrier was, in fact, more closely related to the Cinereous Harrier of South America than the Hen Harrier of Eurasia providing further evidence that the forms represent two distinct species.
As the most intensely persecuted bird of prey in the UK, Hen Harriers are under particular threat from being caught up in the crossfire of grouse hunts in upland moors where they feed on red grouse.
New research confirms that the hen harrier (Circus cyaneus), a medium - sized bird of prey found in parts of North America and Eurasia, is two different...
Ideal for birdwatchers, the Outer Hebrides sees 90 % of Europe's Leach's petrels and 24 % of the world's northern gannet population, as well as numerous important species like cornrakes, hen harriers and golden eagles on a regular basis.
William Morris returns from the dead, a hen harrier seeks revenge on a Range Rover, and Jersey's capital St Helier burns as Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller conjures his English Magic in Margate.
The bird, a hen harrier, has been meticulously painted on the wall of the pavilion under the watchful eye of artist Jeremy Deller.
The breeding population of buzzard, hen harrier, golden plover, snipe, curlew, wheatear and meadow pipit were reduced by up to half within 500 m of the turbines.