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<blockquote data-quote="Brisel" data-source="post: 6298450" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>Winter habitat helps a lot but they need 3 habitats:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Winter cover - January - March is the time for the highest predation losses as the safe coveys break up & pair off for mating. Even full time grey partridge shoots like Arundel, Holkham, Sandringham & Northumberland (Percy) Estates lose 50% during this period. Plant perennial species that hold a canopy in late winter</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nesting habitat - tussocky grasses e.g. beetle banks & hedge bottoms on slopes (a room with a view)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Chick food - each chick needs 200 aphids or other small bugs/day for the first 10 days of its life. Conservation headlands are very good - these are usually weedy thin crops providing overhead protection yet easy movement and bugs on weeds in the base. Better broad leafed herbicides have been one of the main reasons for poor chick survival. A winter wheat or osr crop is like a desert for them. <a href="https://www.gwct.org.uk/farming/advice/habitat-issues/conservation-headlands-field-margins/" target="_blank">https://www.gwct.org.uk/farming/advice/habitat-issues/conservation-headlands-field-margins/</a></li> </ol><p>I don't like released greys - they can introduce disease & the chick feeding is not innate. That's why they are rare! You need wild birds who know how to teach the chicks to feed & where to look. Even fostering them with bantams helps as they will peck around for bugs & seeds.</p><p></p><p>3 main requirements for a healthy grey population:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Habitat (see above)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Supplementary feeding</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Predator control. No sniggering here about gamekeeper behaviour, especially in today's society of trail cameras & mobile phones - just rat, stoat, weasel & fox control makes a big difference. Sort the cover habitat and you make the raptors' hunting more difficult.</li> </ol><p>Further information here <a href="https://www.gwct.org.uk/research/species/birds/grey-partridge/" target="_blank">https://www.gwct.org.uk/research/species/birds/grey-partridge/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brisel, post: 6298450, member: 166"] Winter habitat helps a lot but they need 3 habitats: [LIST=1] [*]Winter cover - January - March is the time for the highest predation losses as the safe coveys break up & pair off for mating. Even full time grey partridge shoots like Arundel, Holkham, Sandringham & Northumberland (Percy) Estates lose 50% during this period. Plant perennial species that hold a canopy in late winter [*]Nesting habitat - tussocky grasses e.g. beetle banks & hedge bottoms on slopes (a room with a view) [*]Chick food - each chick needs 200 aphids or other small bugs/day for the first 10 days of its life. Conservation headlands are very good - these are usually weedy thin crops providing overhead protection yet easy movement and bugs on weeds in the base. Better broad leafed herbicides have been one of the main reasons for poor chick survival. A winter wheat or osr crop is like a desert for them. [URL]https://www.gwct.org.uk/farming/advice/habitat-issues/conservation-headlands-field-margins/[/URL] [/LIST] I don't like released greys - they can introduce disease & the chick feeding is not innate. That's why they are rare! You need wild birds who know how to teach the chicks to feed & where to look. Even fostering them with bantams helps as they will peck around for bugs & seeds. 3 main requirements for a healthy grey population: [LIST=1] [*]Habitat (see above) [*]Supplementary feeding [*]Predator control. No sniggering here about gamekeeper behaviour, especially in today's society of trail cameras & mobile phones - just rat, stoat, weasel & fox control makes a big difference. Sort the cover habitat and you make the raptors' hunting more difficult. [/LIST] Further information here [URL]https://www.gwct.org.uk/research/species/birds/grey-partridge/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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