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    <title>Social Media based waterbird UK hunting bag</title>
    <abstract>These are the raw data on waterbirds legally harvested by UK hunters posting on one of two Facebook based social media groups. These data are used in a linked publication in the journal &quot;Wildlife Biology&quot; to generate estimates (and uncertainty in those estimates) or the relative harvest of different wild waterbird quarry species.</abstract>
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    <collection_method>Images posted in social media groups were viewed online and information on the number, sex, age and species of each bird harvested was recorded.

See paper in Wildlife Biology for details 
Exploring sources of uncertainty in the estimate of waterfowl harvest in the United Kingdom
Matthew B. Ellis, Hannah M. Lewis, Tom C. Cameron</collection_method>
    <provenance>See paper in Wildlife Biology for details 
Exploring sources of uncertainty in the estimate of waterfowl harvest in the United Kingdom
Matthew B. Ellis, Hannah M. Lewis, Tom C. Cameron*
*tcameron@essex.ac.uk</provenance>
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