Traps and rifles: how to bring back the grey partridge

Mike Swan of the Game & Wildlife ConservationTrust has devoted his life to improving gamebird management - and none moreso than for the grey partridge. The symbol of the GWCT, Mike explains the management and gamekeepering the bird needs to thrive on farmland.
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Game is wild, natural and free range, and it is one of the healthiest meats available today. It is low in cholesterol and high in protein. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Both pheasant and partridge contain high levels of iron, protein, vitamin B(6) and selenium, which helps to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals.
In addition to the nutritional benefits of game, game shooting is worth £2 billion annually to the rural economy and supports 74,000 jobs. There are 480,000 (UK government figures) active game shooters in the UK who enjoy bird shooting under the principles of the Code of Good Shooting Practice.
More than 2 million hectares are actively managed for shooting in the UK creating proven (PACEC, 2014) conservation benefits and preserving important habitats for a diverse range of flora and fauna, in particular farmland birds. UK shooting providers spend £5.4 million on cover crop seeds every year and maintain over 25,000ha of wild-bird cover.
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[@joebothehobo9906]

Well done that man. Could you please do more videos in depth about grey partridge. Thanks 🙏

[@outoftownr3906]

Aphids are also most important for growing chicks in cereal crops headlands & an open tilled strip for them to dry out on when its wet.

[@medicatedflowers821]

Best way too let them gain a footing again is stop greedy shots was on a shoot few years back that the keeper stayed at the start of the day under no circumstances shoot greys if your not sure if it’s grey or french don’t shoot at all but there’s always them arseholes that get trigger happy

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[@johnleigh349]

Are you the Mike swan of dickie Potts days at fordingdridge ?? I was on a keepers course in the 80s happy days, nice part of the uk i remember going to a farm that ran a grey partrige shoot 👏👏🐕

[@fieldsportstv]

He is the same Mike Swan. / Charlie

[@conservation4africa293]

What an awesome individual!

[@Siswanto-x9e]

Hello friends 👋
Hunting 💞💓💓💓💪👍👍👍

[@gamerz_pk3479]

I have two of them asian grey