1.4 Million waterbirds are harvested in the United Kingdom annually, where the majority of this harvest is of Mallards shot inland away from our coasts. Professor Tom Cameron discusses whether this is a sustainable level of hunter mortality on Mallard, or on any other of the 17 or more species/populations that are hunted in the UK each winter.
These questions shall be addressed, alongside raising the knowledge gaps and challenges that make answering these questions difficult. New research on estimating the relative harvest bag size of waterbirds, the ecology and behaviour of released Mallard, the long term survival of Mallard in the UK and how using novel research tools can help us differentiate between wild and released