Deer breeding earlier

Red deer on the Isle of Rum are breeding earlier every year. The island’s deer population has been monitored since 1953 and is one of the longest-running research projects in the world. It is thought that longer growing seasons in spring and summer have improved the grazing, leading to a change in the breeding cycle.

The rest of this article appears in the 28th August issue of Shooting Times.

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