Research by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has found persecution, mostly in the form of shooting and poisoning, to be the principle reason hen harriers remain critically endangered in England.
"Misinformation suggesting some form of shoot-out, and you accept that was a serious mistake?" Mr Sparrow replied: "It wasn't accurate", before adding: "It was a mistake".
The report, which is based largely on the testimony of victims, survivors, and witnesses, describes how IS made "gruesome public spectacles" out of its killings in the form of "shooting, beheading, burning alive, bulldozing, and throwing off buildings".
He only minds some forms of shooting: driven grouse shooting; woodcocks, which are on a very fast decline; hen harriers, which are a protected species.
While elders such as Valentine and Sailor believe that the traditional custom of penile shooting is dead, many young men in these communities continue to practice a contemporary form of penile shooting.
As the Manhattan district attorney's office began to prosecute people who had been arrested, some of the most dramatic evidence came in the form of videotapes shot in the streets by private citizens.
The clays are used for an elaborate form of skeet shooting.
In this form of "instinctive" shooting, it is most common to draw to the corner of the mouth.
When early in the 1850s volunteer rifle brigades for this kind of shooting were formed, they attracted some of the finest shots in the United Kingdom, and long-range shooting became so popular that at the first prize meeting in 1860 of the National Rifle Association, Queen Victoria fired the first shot.
She describes this kind of shooting as a form of dance, and a result is footage that rarely provides the viewer with the sense of distance and perspective, even of up or down, that the conventions of television and movies have led us to expect.
