End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From today, cosplaying hobbyists are pulling on their tweed, loading their guns, and standing in lines while beaters drive pheasants into the sky towards them. By the time the ‘season’ closes on 1 February, tens of millions of pheasants will have been killed. 144
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The birds have died of avian botulism and avian flu. Avian botulism is a disease caused by a toxin in water. The summer's heatwave conditions have created the perfect conditions for the disease to thrive. 124
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Will DEFRA finally call for this vile industry to end? 051
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This beautiful, fragile pheasant chick died a cruel death on a pheasant factory farm. She is one of many who have lost their lives because they were seen as units, products, not as live animals who can suffer. All this suffering so people can get their kicks from shooting pheasants out of the air. 055
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This beautiful, fragile pheasant chick died a cruel death on a pheasant factory farm. She is one of many who have lost their lives because they were seen as units, products, not as live animals who can suffer. All this suffering so people can get their kicks from shooting pheasants out of the air. 063
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is a pheasant chick. She is lying on her back at the bottom of a feeder, legs in the air, wings folded, her beak wedged in a gap she can't pull free from. By the time our undercover investigator frees the chick, she is already dying. Within a short time, she is dead. 101
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 03/09/2026On a pheasant farm, a breeding operation exists to produce eggs - and those eggs are laid by females. Most males and birds with deformity or ill-health are killed. They are dropped from trays, usually fully conscious and often with piles of other ‘waste’ like eggshells, into a high-speed shredder. 023
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A walker on Morven Hill near Dinnet, Aberdeenshire, found a dead Red Kite on 30 June. Morven Hill sits on Dinnet Moor, a driven grouse shoot, with predator control that campaigners have long argued crosses the line into illegality. 133
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 29/08/2026They treat these chicks so horribly... 052
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Follow @endbirdshooting.bsky.social and join the growing movement to end the shooting industry. Millions of pheasant chicks go through hatcheries and rearing sheds every year. This will be how a great many of them start their short lives. 164
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 27/08/2026He’s tipping terrified pheasant chicks into a pile, as if he’s throwing potatoes onto a shop floor. Our undercover footage also shows a worker picking up the corpses of chicks who don’t survive. 133
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Grouse shooting season is underway. So here's some good news: Eyam Moor, a historic grouse moor, is now owned by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and will be restored for nature. 1156
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Britain's rarest bird of prey has bred again! Two female Montagu's Harriers have raised six chicks with one male on English farmland: the second successive year of success at this secret site. After no successful nests anywhere in the UK from 2020 to 2024, this is really something to celebrate. 272
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The heartbreaking life of the ‘game’ pheasant begins on a production line. There is no mother to guide or comfort the birds. Their bones have not hardened. Their legs are not yet reliably load-bearing. Workers stop registering them as birds. Tiny chicks get trapped, in danger of being dragged under. 142
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Burgess has spoken out against the grouse shooting season, saying: "We should be restoring our nature and making our countryside more resilient to the climate crisis, not intensively managing vast landscapes to produce more birds to be shot". 032
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Burned peat, drained hillsides, snares and traps running year-round, raptors that vanish with remarkable regularity. This brutal industry engineers vast swathes of moorland, all to shoot a wild bird for kicks. 132
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13/08/2026For most of the 20th century, newspapers covered the grouse season exactly as estates wanted: a glorious occasion framed around aristocratic house parties. Today, the most telling shift is taking place inside the shooting industry’s own media and few remaining allies, with their defensive headlines. 152
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The shooting industry kills on an industrial scale to keep grouse numbers high enough for a day's "sport" to be worthwhile. Foxes, stoats, weasels and corvids are trapped and snared in their thousands. Birds of prey are illegally trapped, poisoned or shot to protect the “stock.” 063
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Approximately 600,000 Red Grouse are shot from the sky annually by people who get their kicks from killing those smaller than them. 188
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The Red Grouse shooting season opens today. There is nothing remotely ‘glorious’ about August 12th. It’s a date which is synonymous with the killing of birds, the trashing of uplands, and making as much money as possible on moorland estates owned by so-called ‘aristocrats’ or hedge funds. 251
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Red Grouse should be a national treasure. Instead, they're gunned down from the sky in the name of 'sport'. The grouse shooting season opens today. Lines of guns will be waiting for beaters to drive terrified Red Grouse into the air, so their clients can shoot as many as possible before lunch. 154
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Inglorious Twelfth begins TOMORROW. Hundreds of thousands of Red Grouse will be shot down this year for 'fun'. The shooting industry calls it the Glorious Twelfth, but there is nothing glorious about driving terrified birds into gunfire. 173
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Two Scottish estates, Drimmie and Invermark, have lost their licences to kill common birds until 2029, after birds of prey were illegally killed on their land. At Drimmie, a gamekeeper was convicted of bludgeoning a rare goshawk to death after trapping her in a crow cage trap. 362
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Raptor Persecution UK has reported that a trial against two Scottish gamekeepers has collapsed. The men were being prosecuted over the alleged shooting of red kites in the Cairngorms, and all charges have been dropped. 112
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In exactly a week, the Inglorious Twelfth begins. It's the start of grouse-shooting season, when hundreds of thousands of red grouse are shot down for sport. Moorlands have been burned and predators killed to boost grouse numbers, all so a few can shoot them for kicks. 042
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Bill Oddie was a much loved wildlife presenter and birder. A passionate conservationist, he spoke out against grouse shooting, the badger cull and other cruelties. He campaigned for the red grouse to be made Britain's national bird, to protect the bird from the 'wealthy, dishonest, cruel' people. 1135
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The bird shooting industry doesn't want you to see scenes like this. Found at Cambrian Birds’ hatchery this little life stood no chance of surviving. Millions of birds are factory farmed every year in the uk for paying clients to shoot out of the sky for fun. 114
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Our investigator heard faint cheeping from a skip piled with broken eggshells at a commercial pheasant farm. The chick was rescued but sadly died. A tiny life treated as disposable by an industry that breeds tens of millions of birds to be shot for ‘sport’ 042
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Did you know millions of birds are factory farmed to supply shooting estates? 164
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is the sheer scale of the bird shooting industry that they don't want the public to see! 123
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 17/07/2026We're hiring! On the lookout for a full-time campaigner to join us in the campaign to end bird shooting! Full application details below. 110
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Taking applications to grow out our team to End Bird Shooting! 121
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Inside the Incubators and Brooders on a 'game farm'. END BIRD SHOOTING. endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/born-to-dieendbirdshooting.substack.comBorn to DieInside the Incubators and Brooders on a 'game farm'. 033
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes, it's the shooting industry's lobbying group BASC...who else endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/which-org-...endbirdshooting.substack.comWhich org wants to shoot Ring-necked Parakeets for 'sport'Yes, it's the shooting industry's lobbying group BASC...who else 175
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The British Association for Shooting and Conservation has applied to add ring-necked and monk parakeets to the official list of birds that can be hunted for sport. 5169
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026HOW DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS?! endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/a-door-lef...endbirdshooting.substack.comA Door Left Open: How Pheasant Farms' Illegal Egg Dumps Could Be Feeding the Bird Flu CrisisOver the last few weeks we have been posting exposés in our ‘Investigations’ series, based on evidence collected by the largest undercover investigation into the shooting industry ever conducted. 143
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A powerful symbol. Dismantling the shooting industry. END BIRD SHOOTING. 133
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is gross. The NGO has launched a UK Parliament petition asking the government to amend Schedule 2.1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to list cormorants, goosanders and red-breasted mergansers as species that may be managed outside the close season. 246
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Nothing to see here! Just exposing the vile bird shooting industry! endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/dead-week-...endbirdshooting.substack.com‘Dead Week’: The Birds Who Are Used Up'It just happens' 022
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This is what the bird shooting industry wants hidden.. 115
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 02/07/2026No thinking person would choose either: not the chronic stress and feather-pecking of a battery shed, or the wire-floored, excreta-encrusted cages built to produce birds for the gun.open.substack.com“I'd rather be in a cage on a pheasant farm than a chicken in a cage on a factory farm.”The trite 'whataboutery' of the pro-shoot social media commenter 053
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Her satelite tag had been 'deliberately' cut off 133
End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 21/06/2026We are in this for the long haul. We are as hopeful as we are determined. And we are certain - not just hopeful, but certain - that we will succeed. protectthewild.substack.com/p/how-were-g...protectthewild.substack.comHow we’re going to end bird shootingWe make difficult demands on the people who support us. 0114
