If gamekeepers are responsible for this (which landowners deny), their efforts may be counter-productive.
Operation Samurai will involve Cumbria Police, Forestry Commission, Environment Agency as well as local gamekeepers and landowners.
The study commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) suggested 97.6% of gamekeepers, deer managers and stalkers were men.
The birds were formerly widespread and common in the UK, but they were gradually killed off by farmers and gamekeepers.
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association is another member of the Paw partnership and chairman Alex Hogg also welcomed the new figures.
Alex Hogg, chairman of The Scottish Gamekeepers Association said both gamekeepers had acted in good faith and within the law.
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He said gamekeepers and others working in the rural sector should be encouraged to work as specials in a bid to cut crime.
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When Andrew Carnegie was a boy this was a privately-owned estate, just a short distance from the family cottage and he was regularly turfed out by the gamekeepers.
Outdoor enthusiast Sir Hugh Munro, who gave his name to mountains over 3, 000ft, is listed as a proprietor of two estates with gamekeepers, gardeners, farm workers and labourers - but no Munro mountains.
And this year, despite optimistic forecasts of a great flurry of wings, Scottish gamekeepers think that there has been only a marginal increase in the number of birds flying the gauntlet of the guns.
"The illegal poisoning of birds of prey has no place in wildlife management and the Scottish Gamekeepers Association and other partners will continue to do everything possible in the hope that this practice can be eradicated completely, " he said.
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