ABSTRACT. – The correlates of hunting techniques with wildlife trade were investigated by determining the cause of death of 3490 carcasses sold in markets of 10 communities of the Niger Delta (southern Nigeria), during the dry and wet seasons, in 2010-2012. Freshly landed wildlife carcasses were examined in the markets to determine the method of capture of each animal, and also interviews with selected hunters were made. Hunting strategies were grossly subdivided into 7 groups: shooting was the most important hunting technique in terms of amount of animals killed and traded in bushmeat markets, followed by wire snare and fence trapping. However, hunters adopted a special hunting technique for each traded species, and some species were never hunted by shooting or wire snares. Hunting success was higher in wet season in all the 10 study stations. Hunting expeditions were also more frequent by wet season at all sites, due to a much higher probability of finding animals to catch, and the consequent need of walking for less long periods.