The RSPB is right to call in gamekeepers and follow the evidence (RSPB defends crow cull as members fly off the handle, August 7) that predation can and does impact prey populations. Our upland predation trials predict that gamekeepers increase curlew numbers by 93% in just five years, but they fall by 61% without nest protection. This is in line with a recent report by the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) that over 70% of curlew nests observed across Europe, failed to hatch a single chick.
Andrew Gilruth
Director of Communications
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