Bird protection
By contrast, on the other side of the Cleish Hills from me, a farmer of my acquaintance has cleared his 500 acres of the crow family with the aid of a Larsen trap, a legal and selective means of saving the springtime delight of curlews and plover that inhabit his arable and pasture. His woodlands, magpie-free, are a haven of songbird survival. No-one wants to see the extinction of our noblest crow, corvus corax, or any species of wild bird, but a balance between predator and prey must be struck in the countryside where modern agriculture has so disadvantaged ground-nesting and song birds.
Alastair Harper
Lathalmond by Dunfermline, Fife