BIRD et al. Forktail 26 (2010) were still 25–30 trappers active across a broader region encompassing five villages, many of which fell outside the influence of awareness campaigns.
The interviewee reported that circa 500 birds per year per hunter were taken and sold locally with current prices per bird at circa 80–100 BDT ($US1.1–1.7) for large species such as Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata, with small sandpipersCalidris and plovers Charadrius valued at just 10 BDT
($0.1). There is apparently no longer an open market as hunting is recognised as being illegal and birds are only sold locally.
The local NGO worker reported substantially higher hunting activity, with an estimate of 100 hunters
(c.20/village) out of a total population of 7,000 people from six villages. However, he also indicated that the hunters would be happy to stop catching birds if alternative income sources could be found.
Hunting is predominantly carried out using monofilament nets set at high-tide roosts,
often with live decoys tethered to the ground. A group of villagers interviewed at a different village on Sonadia also indicated that hunting was formerly more frequent and that visiting professional bird hunters targeted a hightide roost that could yield 500 birds in a single catch with coordinated flushing.