Red and Black Grouse

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This paper explains that two species that occupy the heather moorland in the U.K., the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus) and the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix), are today on the endangered list of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The author points out that the Game Conservancy Trust lists the causes of this population decline as: Heavy agricultural activities and land conversion into intensive farming, over-grazing by deer and sheep populations, changing forest formation, and mortality from predation and deer fences. The paper suggests that, to reduce this decline, gamekeepers should trap the predators to allow the grouse to breed normally, and conservation organizations should bargain with landowners so that the community also fulfills its social responsibility to recover the grouse's habitat.

From the Paper:

"Black grouse and red grouse seem to have similar problems that cause the decline of the population. Both black grouse and red grouse prefer the heather moorland, upland bogs, adjacent to the forest but still outside the forest area, avoiding grown-up trees. The wet places are where they feed mainly on heath, berries, young plants, seed, flowers, insects such as flies, and caterpillars. The chicks especially have the initial needs for insects."

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