France's top administrative court has banned a further range of traditional techniques for hunting birds, following the banning of glue trapping in June, reports Radio France Internationale.
The ruling has been welcomed by environmental pressure groups but denounced by hunters.
The techniques banned under the latest ruling by the State Council include hunting with nets or bird cages, practices popular in the south-west of France and the Ardennes region in the east of the country.
The new decision revokes exemptions granted by the government to allow the hunting of birds such as lapwings, golden plovers, skylarks, thrushes and blackbirds after a 2009 EU directive that banned the mass hunting of birds irrespective of species.
The court said the government has not proven that such techniques were necessary and the "idea alone of preserving so-called 'traditional' methods is not enough to authorise them".
The EU Court of Justice said in March that using glue traps caused "irreparable harm" to the thrushes and blackbirds that are caught.
Activists say that 150,000 birds die annually in France from non-selective hunting techniques such as glue traps and nets at a time when Europe's bird population is in sharp decline.