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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin Thomas" data-source="post: 1334987" data-attributes="member: 8214">In some ways a fair comment John but tempered by the fact it is the existence of the 'sport' shooting fraternity (including the Gallinas of this world) that is at the core of hen harrier persecution in the UK and further afield too. It also highlights just how important one single migratory bird is be should it be unnecessarily killed on passage. There is strong evidence of hen harriers using Malta although I have no evidence of UK birds there. Hopefully some of the current satellite tracking by Stephen Murphy at Natural England will shed further light on their rather complex movement habits.I also posted the link in the Bird of Prey section but felt it had it's place here as it is certainly a conservation issue to say the least but my intent was not to make it inflammatory here.</blockquote>