Capercaillie

[Sam Thompson]

Capercaillie Life Project - Urgent Scottish Management for Scottish Capercaillie

 

I think that Caps could do with their profile rising a little bit in this country, worth a look if you are interested in wildlife

 

 

Discuss

[Charlieh]

blooming non native species

[slack ma girdle]

Any bird that has such a fine/ ludicrous courtship gets my vote.

[Sam Thompson]

blooming tasty non native species

 

 

 

Its just the current strain that are scandiwegian

[Charlieh]

i know, thing is they didnt like where they were reintroduced to spread really quickly then went into rapid decline over the last 100 yrs or so, its like black grouse in say 1910-1920 there were black grouse in most English counties!

 

caper are fantastic though most i have seen is 5 females in one tree when out surveying outside aviemore, you quickly get your eye into the type of habitat your likely to find them in, that and having a few radio tagged always helps

[Sam Thompson]

i know, thing is they didnt like where they were reintroduced to spread really quickly then went into rapid decline over the last 100 yrs or so, its like black grouse in say 1910-1920 there were black grouse in most English counties!

 

caper are fantastic though most i have seen is 5 females in one tree when out surveying outside aviemore, you quickly get your eye into the type of habitat your likely to find them in, that and having a few radio tagged always helps

 

I spent a brilliant morning watching them lek a couple of years ago. That was all it took to get me supporting them 100%

[Charlieh]

I had a male fly over me one morning when surveying, huge birds and it looked awesome as it sailed off down the hillside above the tops of the scots pines