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OVER 59,000 hares and 420,000 partridges were shot during last year's hunting season, according to a recent study carried out by the Game Department.
During the same period, it was estimated that hunters killed 15,000 woodcocks, 11,000 quails, and 100,000 thrushes, as well as around 117,000 other birds big and small.
The study, which questioned 388 hunters out of the 42,895 registered, found that hunters spent an average 6.04 hours hunting per session, compared to 4.5 hours in the previous season.
In a total of 18 hunting days in last year's hunting season the average percentage of outings was 9.6 while 99.6 per cent of those who hunted last year went out on the first Sunday.
During the first day, one in four hunters killed a hare, while each hunter bagged an average 2.5 partriges.
In total, the average hunter last season killed 1.4 hares and 9.8 partridges.
The Game Department believes that the compilation of such statistics can help in creating a database that would help forecast the dynamics of game populations.
Copyright Cyprus Mail 2002
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