In their letter A Holiday In Malta (May 10), Norwegians Thorleif Høstmark and Gerd Mago, having witnessed hunters “shooting at small and, no doubt, migratory birds”, would be advising their friends to seek other holiday destinations.

For the benefit of who might actually believe their concerns about hunting in Malta are genuine and not simply the usual anti-hunter scaremongering, the official travel guide to Norway states: “Norway has an abundant fauna and a rich animal life. The opportunities for hunting are many. There are large numbers of moose, wild reindeer, deer, hare, grouse and other large woodland fowl in the forests and mountains. Hunting may be carried out on government property, state common land and private property.”

So any of their friends who might take up their advice to boycott Malta should similarly not holiday in Norway because, apart from Norwegians having the benefit of shooting larger birds including many that migrate, hunting in Norway is no less popular than in Malta with 191,000 practising what we hunters like doing best.