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  1. Farnboro John

    Goshawks and impact on the ecosystem

    I've heard that for years from New Forest observers but my experience is that it isn't so (I still see them): I suspect that the presence of Goshawks does however make them much more circumspect in their actions from display through hunting style to selection of breeding sites. It probably does...
  2. Farnboro John

    Goshawks and impact on the ecosystem

    Maybe the Goshawk effect on Corvids is more important to the Lapwings than the possibility of direct predation by the hawks? Certainly at my local gravel pits Lapwings have been annihilated year on year at the chick stage by Carrion Crows. John
  3. Farnboro John

    Goshawks and impact on the ecosystem

    Our ecosystem in the UK is distorted in many ways. Obviously the shortage of larger predators that is the legacy of centuries of unsustainable hunting, followed by Victorian pressure on medium sized predators (and below, though that is harder to achieve) is one of them. As that pressure has...
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