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Michele Mendi

western Capercaillie occupies mainly mature forest and woodland, primarily coniferous, but also mixed coniferous-deciduous and, locally, deciduous woodlands (de Juana & Kirwan 2020). Its range covers the vast taiga zone from Scandinavia to Siberia E of Baikal Lake as well as a discontinuous mountain-based distribution in C & S Europe and Scotland. Fennoscandia and Russia are the European strongholds. it is mainly resident, often with local movements in response to feeding requirements with occasional, irruptive long-distance movements (de Juana & Kirwan 2020).

Season of assessment

B

Population trendDecreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
1590000-3420000,2110000
Red List categoryLC
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
N records N individuals N recoveries
Mapped data*
Total available data
*Mapped data include only distant (>= 50 km) recoveries