Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom
![An English Springer Spaniel in a typical English shooting scene](/Images/godic/202502/10/Kerygma_Cockers_Echo_&_Pheasant5233.JPG")
![Snowden Slights with retriever and shotgun around 1910 'the last of Yorkshire's Wildfowlers'[5]](/Images/godic/202502/10/Snowden_Slights,_front_view_YORYM-S135233.jpg")
![Mean ± SE numbers of birds recorded in 4 ha plots in woodlands managed for pheasants compared with unmanaged woodlands in southern England. * indicates statistically significant difference. Created using data from Draycott et al. (2008).](/Images/godic/202502/10/Graph_45233.png")
![Cover crops such as maize are planted in strips to provide forage and shelter for game birds during the winter months](/Images/godic/202502/10/Game_cover_crop_along_Spring_Plantation_-_geograph.org.uk_-_16376885234.jpg")
In the United Kingdom hunting without qualification generally refers to hunting with hounds-normally fox hunting, beagling, stag (deer) hunting or minkhunting-whereas shooting is the shooting of game birds. What is called deer hunting elsewhere is deer stalking.