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    Driven grouse shooting is a field sport in the United Kingdom involving the shooting of red grouse. It is one of two forms of the sport, the other is walked-up...
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    Grouse /ɡraʊs/ are a group of birds from the order Galliformes, in the family Phasianidae. Grouse are presently assigned to the tribe Tetraonini (formerly...
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  • kill. The term has been used for driven grouse shooting, in which large areas of Britain are farmed for red grouse. According to WordNet, a canned hunt...
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    Gamekeepers in the United Kingdom (category Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom)
    9 Feb 2018 https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/investigations/posts/ed-hutchings-rspb-interview-license-driven-grouse-shooting- accessed 18.5.2020...
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    religion Augury Sacred ibis Sky burial In hunting Cormorant fishing Driven grouse shooting Plume hunting Wildfowling Products Chicken Down Egg Feather Guano...
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    The red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland....
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    demo tapes to record companies. He also worked as a grouse beater, a practice of driven grouse shooting, at Balmoral Castle. Ishiguro later reflected on...
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    grazing of sheep and field sport activities like deer stalking and driven grouse shooting impacts the distribution of indigenous plants and animals. The UK's...
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    dunlin and snipe. Commercial driven grouse shooting occurs on the heather moorlands of the Dark Peak, where the red grouse population is maintained by...
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    takes the view that driven grouse shoots should be licensed so that, for example, crimes committed on estates managed for shooting should result in the...
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  • religion Augury Sacred ibis Sky burial In hunting Cormorant fishing Driven grouse shooting Plume hunting Wildfowling Products Chicken Down Egg Feather Guano...
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  • religion Augury Sacred ibis Sky burial In hunting Cormorant fishing Driven grouse shooting Plume hunting Wildfowling Products Chicken Down Egg Feather Guano...
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    whereas shooting is the shooting of game birds. What is called deer hunting elsewhere is deer stalking. According to the British Association for Shooting and...
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    game animals. Field sports such as driven grouse shooting conceal hunters in hides (also called blinds or shooting butts). Modern hunting clothing makes...
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  • study found that of 180 birds tested, 179 were shot with lead. Driven grouse shooting Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Game (food) Gamekeeper Hunting...
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    Knott, J.; Wilson, J.D. (2009). "Resolving the conflict between driven-grouse shooting and conservation of Hen Harriers". Journal of Applied Ecology. 46...
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  • jointly with the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on grouse shooting, with the Health Select Committee on the meningitis B vaccine, and...
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    uplands is home to driven grouse shooting from 12 August (the Glorious Twelfth) until 10 December every year. The number of grouse moors in Northern England...
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  • 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway built in the 1920s to carry shooting parties to the grouse moors of Duchal Moor and the Muirshiel Hills, within the Clyde...
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  • railway was built to allow grouse shooters to easily access grouse moors from the Dalmunzie Hotel; it ran to the Glenlochsie shooting lodge. It was inaugurated...
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    traditional formal "driven shoot" principles, whereby paying guns have birds driven over them by beaters, and on smaller "rough shoots". The open season...
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    Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in the UK) is the practice of hunting aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and other waterfowls...
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    animal in order to kill it. A montería is an example of this. Game may be driven to a trap; to a fall that will kill it, such as over a cliff; or to a position...
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  • Countryside Alliance (category Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom)
    of shooting grouse were outweighed by the environmental cost and subsequently called for its review. The Countryside Alliance's Director of Shooting Adrian...
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    hare, rabbit, woodcock, pheasant and the red fox. The iconic Cantabrian grouse was protected in the second half of the 20th century. The two most common...
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    McGowan, P. (2002). Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse: A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails, and Sandgrouse of...
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  • Among measures it introduces is a licensing scheme for land where grouse shooting takes place, and regulations for traps. 22 March – A report prepared...
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    strong Chesterfield cigarettes was rivalled only by her partiality to Famous Grouse whisky at home and gin in hot climates. Bates, Stephen (29 March 2001)....
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    (Cygnus spp.) and geese during the breeding season, and are frequently driven off by these birds over territorial disputes. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) have...
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    which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse (the plover is faster, but neither is the fastest game bird in Europe)....
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