Hen harriers are a scare breeding species — but are becoming a rare breeding species. The ones that are found here are found ...

Ornis Scandinavica (Scandinavian Journal of Ornithology), Vol. 11, No. 1 (1980), pp. 1-11 (11 pages) Young rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus caught by the female Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus were the main ...

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The numbers of breeding hen harriers, one of England’s rarest birds and a protected species, dropped sharply in the late 1990s and early 2000s. To better understand why hen harriers were vanishing, ...

The long-running row over Britain’s hen harriers could offer lessons for other conservation conflicts, new research shows. Hen harriers’ prey includes birds that are shot for sport, especially red ...

1. Hen harriers Circus cyaneus can reduce the numbers of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus available for shooting. We conducted a supplementary feeding experiment on Langholm Moor, UK, in 1998 and ...