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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 8h

If you believe that intensively farming millions of birds just to use them as live targets is wrong, then you believe the shooting industry is wrong. Add your name and use your voice to help end bird shooting: protectthewild.org.uk/end-bird-sho...

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End Bird Shooting Petition - Protect the Wild

Ban Bird Shooting for SportMillions of birds are bred, released and killed for entertainment. Pheasants and partridges are intensively produced before being transported and released into the…

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 8h

The shooting industry damages natural ecosystems. It is time for it to end.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 11h

Hen harriers, goshawks, peregrine falcons, buzzards, red kites, and even golden and white-tailed eagles are not safe. Sign up to end bird shooting and stop raptor persecution today: protectthewild.org.uk/end-bird-sho...

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End Bird Shooting Petition - Protect the Wild

Ban Bird Shooting for SportMillions of birds are bred, released and killed for entertainment. Pheasants and partridges are intensively produced before being transported and released into the…

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 11h

Raptor persecution is a serious crime, and it’s happening across the UK.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13h

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End Bird Shooting Petition - Protect the Wild

Ban Bird Shooting for SportMillions of birds are bred, released and killed for entertainment. Pheasants and partridges are intensively produced before being transported and released into the…

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13h

Bird shooting IS a bloodsport. It is time for it to end.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 15h

Pheasants feel, suffer and matter. They deserve protection. Do you agree?

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 18h

Did you know, raptors are persecuted by the shooting industry too?

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

About 50 million pheasants are released in Britain each year. Tens of millions of those pheasants will have been bred on what we consider to be factory farms, trucked out to woodland pens and fed through the summer. Then they are flushed towards people who have paid to kill them.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While avian botulism might be inevitable due to climate change, we must call out the poultry & shooting industries for their role in the spread of avian flu. Bird flu was born in unsanitary factory farms & is now being spread by the release of millions of birds, to be shot in the name of sport.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Will DEFRA finally call for this vile industry to end?

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Like most farmed pheasant chicks, this one had been “bitted” - a plastic clip has been pushed through the nasal septum to hold the beak slightly open. What the bit does, beyond restricting the beak, is change its shape. We assume the bit’s edges caught against the edges of gap.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not one mainstream media report mentioned the grouse moor. That omission doesn’t appear neutral to us. It’s an editorial choice, made over and over again. The media is letting an industry with a documented, repeated, chemical-specific pattern of raptor persecution off the hook.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A day-old pheasant chick, weighing perhaps 40g, with bones that haven’t hardened and legs not yet reliably load-bearing, is as vulnerable to a fall as an animal gets. Tipping dozens of them out of a tray from height on top of each other is inhumane, yet the shooting industry is getting away with it.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Follow @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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THIS is where Britain's disorientated countryside pheasants come from. Millions of pheasant chicks go through hatcheries and rearing sheds every year, destined for release onto shooting estates as live targets. Read our article here endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/like-tippi...

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“Like Tipping Potatoes Onto a Shop Floor”

Our cameras catch more mistreatment at yet another ‘game’ farm

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

He’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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Grouse 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Montagu's Harriers were added to the UK red list in 2021, after numbers fell from a peak of nine successful nests in 2011 to none at all for four straight years. The RSPB says it's doing everything it can to save the species here and is delighted with six juveniles.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Britain'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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Millions of pheasant chicks pass through hatcheries every year, destined for release onto shooting estates as live targets, to be shot for so-called ‘sport’. Read more about the horrific first days of a pheasant chick here endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/just-one-m...

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Just one more item to be sorted, moved, processed.

Pheasants bred for shooting start life being chucked on to a conveyor belt...

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Burgess 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".

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Burned 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Read more about how the mainstream media has fallen out of love with grouse shooting endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/not-so-glo...

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Not So Glorious Anymore

Tracking the media's retreat from unquestioning support for grouse shooting

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The 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.”

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Grouse shooting season opens today. Read our latest Substack post here endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/the-inglor...

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The Inglorious Twelfth - nothing to celebrate

But there could be a better future...

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Approximately 600,000 Red Grouse are shot from the sky annually by people who get their kicks from killing those smaller than them.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Red 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The 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.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

At Invermark, a peregrine was found illegally shot on land the estate owns, but the estate says it doesn't manage that land and is considering an appeal.

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End Bird Shooting @endbirdshooting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two 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.

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