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King Charles Threatens to Cancel Boxing Day Shoot Over Sandringham Pheasant Shortage

Faced with dwindling wild bird numbers, the monarch has dismissed a gamekeeper over the shortfall under a policy forbidding imported pheasants.

King Charles III is livid about the lack of pheasants at his hunting estate
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Overview

  • King Charles III expressed fury this week after reports of a significant decline in pheasant numbers at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
  • A long-serving gamekeeper was relieved of duty following the estate’s failure to rear enough birds for the traditional shoot.
  • The annual Boxing Day pheasant shoot, a cherished royal tradition, now faces possible cancellation if wild populations do not recover.
  • Sandringham’s eco-friendly wild-shooting model bars sourcing birds from commercial breeders, deepening the crisis.
  • The pheasant shortfall threatens more than 200 local jobs in gamekeeping and farming tied to estate operations.