Most of our hen harriers are missing

摘要

Generally speaking, people like birds. Very few birds are killed deliberately in the UK these days. The reason that we have so few skylarks in the British countryside is not that farmers shoot them, trap them or poison them, it's because agriculture has degraded the farmland habitat and made the life of a skylark a lot more difficult. Most bird declines are the result of unsustainable economic activities rather than nastiness aimed at particular birds.