There are ways to try and control hawkes ,everyone has to play there part it’s out of control charity begins at home something has to be done,regarding YB losses sickness & virus on at top of the list,controlling nobody talking to one another, clashing is another part of it.I think the birds are dehydrated before they are liberated,a lot of the birds are never basket trained fanciers have to look in the mirror.This is true some fanciers have said this to each other OB was a bad season YB is a shambles .racing pigeons passageway in narrowing each year,The hawkes went 3 fold when we joined eu DDT was banned that kept the hawkes population down made them sterile.A good friend of mine traines 2 feds Ob& YB with success he is training about 1.200 very low losses as I have seen myself Percy is taking a bird out back of the pack,and the birds don’t even know it happened,fanciers don’t train on there own maybe one or two that about it,never ever seen losses like this before and a lot is the fanciers to blame most of it is man made,breeding to many pigeons to be left with a handful for the following year.