Abstract Agricultural landscapes had been inhabited by a vast number of bird species in the past; however, especially last decades, agricultural intensification negatively affected habitat composition. Habitat heterogeneity decreased and many inhabiting farmland has severely declined. These still offer home for species, but with decreasing environmental variability, less suitable might be avail...

In 2020, nine major UK shooting and rural organisations proposed a voluntary transition from the use for hunting of lead shotgun ammunition to non-lead alternatives. The food retailer Waitrose & Partners has announced its intention move not supplying game meat products animals killed using any kind National Game Dealers Association plan similar policy be implemented in 2022. SHOT-SWITCH res...

Subtle variations in early rearing environment influence morphological, cognitive and behavioural processes that together impact on adult fitness. We manipulated habitat complexity experienced by young pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) in their first seven weeks, adding a third accessible dimension by placing elevated perches in their rearing pens mimicking natural variation in habitat complexity...

Yersinia spp. were isolated from 34 of 500 birds representing nine species. The highest isolation rate, 5 of 21 (23.8%), was found in blue magpies (Cyanopia cyanus), followed by pheasants (Phasianus colchicus tohkaidi), 5 of 33 (15.2%); gray starlings (Sturnus cineraceus), 6 of 57 (10.5%); tree sparrows (Passer montanus), 1 of 14 (7.1%); bulbuls (Hypsipetes amaurotis), 4 of 57 (7.0%); crows (Co...