I've seen accounts of nesting sites in the UK having to be protected from egg collectors by round the clock human and video surveilance, and here in Canada I've heard tales of men being stopped boarding local ferries with a sawwhet owl in each pocket (these are tiny birds who so trust in their natural camouflage that they can actually be picked up once you see them, and there is an island in Lake Ontario where their winter sites get mapped out so they are actually easy to find). When the highly endangered preregrine falcon shows up nesting in a taller building in small towns near where I live, it is almost inevitable that someone will steal the nestlings to sell in the middle east or, more frequently, kill the the adults for the sheer pleasure of bugging people. And stuffed owls and eagles became so popular here, at one point, that ownership of their feathers was made illegal in Canada. So I do have the idea that birds of prey are generally endangered even after free run chickens were no longer common- but (and it took a long time to get here didn't it? ) I take it the previous two posts are referring to some sort of gameskeepers vs twitchers thing going on in the UK? Shooters vs somebody? Or what?