Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) - Woodland Trust (2024)

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co*cks (males) typically range from 74 to 85 centimetres (29 to 33 inches) in length with wingspan of 90 to 125 cm (35 to 49 in) and an average weight of 4.1 kg (9 lb 1 oz). The largest wild co*cks can attain a length of 100 cm (40 in) and weight of 6.7 kg (14 lb 12 oz).

They are similar in size to a domestic hen. Females are slightly smaller than males and are a mottled greyish brown in colour. Not to be confused with: capercallie. The female black grouse is similar to the female capercaillie, however the black grouse doesn't have the capercaillie's orange-brown throat.

The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), is a member of the grouse family. It is also called the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather co*ck, or just capercaillie. It is found across Europe and the Palearctic. It is sexually dimorphic.

Roughly 1% of the population was estimated to behave abnormally. Deviant males display and show threatening behavior toward not only humans, but also attacked stuffed capercaillie males and without hesitation copulated with a stuffed female. Deviant females appear tame and crouch in front of humans, but avoid males.

The sharptail, a 45-cm (18-inch) bird weighing 1 kg (about 2 pounds), is wild from Quebec and Michigan westward across Canada and southwestward to New Mexico. The capercaillie, or capercailzie (Tetrao urogallus), exclusively a European game bird, is the largest member of the grouse family.

In the UK, the bird is only found in Scotland and fewer than 600 are thought to survive.

The Chinese grouse is considered to be one of the rarest grouse species in the world. In China, it is an endangered species and listed in Category I of nationally protected animals.

The capercaillie is usually found in older pine tree forests and the population in Sweden is quite steady. Hunting the Capercaillie is done with free running dogs (or is this working dogs?) that hold the birds at bay, pointer dogs and in the winter by stalking. The season starts the 25 August until the 15 November.

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That evening I prepared capercaillie carpaccio for my new friends. The meat is intensely dark, and has a taste that compares to red grouse, but with a citrus kick at the end, thanks to its diet of pine needles.

Within the UK, Capercaillie occur only in Scotland and mainly in suitable forest habitat in Badenoch and Strathspey. The species is believed to have become extinct during the 18th century and birds of Swedish origin were re-introduced during the 19th century.

By around 10–14 days and so forth, they are capable of short flights. Where their range overlaps in similar biomes of other species, they are capable of hybridizing with the ringneck pheasant, western capercaillie, black-billed capercaillie, Siberian grouse, hazel grouse, and willow ptarmigan.

A male black-billed capercaillie has an average length of about 89–97 centimetres (35–38 in) and weighs 3.4–4.6 kg (7.5–10.1 lb), with females measuring around 69–75 cm (27–30 in) and weighing 1.7–2.2 kg (3.7–4.9 lb). Their wingspan stretches approximately 75–115 cm (30–45 in) long.

The capercaillie is a huge gamebird, the size of a turkey, that lives in the forests of Scotland. Loss of its woodland habitat led to the capercaillie becoming extinct in the UK in the mid-18th century, but birds were reintroduced from Sweden almost a century later.

The Wild Turkey is North America's largest upland game bird. Average adult hens weigh between 8-12 lbs. and adult toms between 10-20 lbs., but a large tom can weigh in excess of 25 lbs.

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