Capercaillie could be wiped out in Scotland within the next 30 years, scientists have said. Numbers of the large grouse have declined markedly since the 1970s and there may now be fewer than 1,100 ...

The capercaillie is the largest member of the game bird family. The bird, whose Gaelic name means “horse of the woods”, was ...

The capercaillie is at real risk of extinction in the UK, with only 542 of the birds estimated to be left in Scotland, according to a new survey. The population has dropped by about 50% since the ...

Researchers might have solved the riddle of how to save one of Scotland's most iconic protected species from eating another. The capercaillie is a ground-nesting bird that, with just over 500 left ...