Originally Posted by
PA GOBBLER
What happened to you science guys? It’s all about habitat, have good habitat and the birds of prey won’t do any harm to small game populations. As to why they are protected I can’t answer that.
i believe habitat only accounts for part of survival.But cover can protect against raptors but not against K9 and their noses in high foilage. Alot of raptors do a number on game birds after the rain. You ever notice how the game birds come out to roads and shorter foilage areas after a heavy rain or during a light rain?Easy targets for raptors.