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Originally Posted by Meta menardi  I think you have it about right. I wonder if Raven feeding stations could help to lower the pressure in areas where there is a problem? Most lambing seasons produce carcases, at the moment they cannot be buried, they can't be left and they can't go to the hunt. Perhaps a bit of thought could get some kind of compromise. I certainly think control by shooting could be very difficult, poisoning must be completely unacceptable. |
There is a risk that feeding stations encourage more younger birds to stay in an area due to food always being available allowing them to feed when a resident pair is elsewhere - in fact if you kill a resident pair the result may well be
more ravens that normal as the pair usually drive all youngersters out of their territory.
a difficult problem for all parties that's for sure