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Reduce pesticide or herbicide use generally

Provide artificial nesting sites for raptors

Provide or retain un-harvested buffer strips

Create uncultivated margins around intensive arable or pasture fields for birds

Set longlines at night to reduce seabird bycatch

Use prescribed burning on shrublands

Employ grazing in non-grassland habitats

Control predators not on islands for wildfowl

Clean birds following oil spills

Release birds as adults or sub-adults, not juveniles

Manage hedges to benefit birds

Plant nectar flower mixture/wildflower strips for birds

Create skylark plots for bird conservation

Reduce management intensity on permanent grasslands for birds

Use selective harvesting/logging instead of clearcutting

Manually control or remove midstorey and ground-level vegetation (including mowing, chaining, cutting etc) in shrubland

Apply herbicide to mid- and understorey vegetation

Raise water levels in ditches or grassland

Use aversive conditioning to reduce nest predation by avian predators

Reduce inter-specific competition for nest sites of ground nesting seabirds by removing competitor species

Use visual and acoustic ‘scarers’ to deter birds from landing on pools polluted by mining or sewage

Provide supplementary food for hummingbirds to increase adult survival

Translocate gamebirds

Translocate raptors

Translocate woodpeckers