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NARRATOR: Today there are far fewer wildfowl than
there were in Payne-Gallwey's day.
and many are rightly protected by law.
The great days of puntgunning are gone
when professional wildfowlers filled the shops with
wildfowl from the marshes
rather than the farmer breeding them.
"In 1881 the public shooting quarters",
noted Lewis Clements, "recorded that in a
five-month period, a professional Essex folwer,
George Gardner shot...
GARDNER: Fifty-one Brent geese,
eighty-two wigeon,
four goldeneyes,
seven godwits,
eighty redshanks,
one hundred and fifty-nine knotts,
six hunderd and forty-two dunlins,
one Richardson's skua,
one jackdaw,
three turnstones,
one heron,
one rook,
four inverells,
seven grey plovers,
seven ringed plovers,
six ...
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