
Investigating wild bird crime
Despite legal protection, offences against wild birds continue and every year the RSPB receives more than 500 reports of wild bird crime.
The RSPB works alongside other groups and organisations in order to investigate crimes and hopefully bring the offenders to justice. Here we highlight our role and the main law enforcement organisations.
Birdcrime 2018

The RSPB's Birdcrime report summarises offences against wild bird legislation which are reported to the RSPB each year. It is the only centralised source of incident data for UK wild bird crime.
Further reading
