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The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), also known as the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather cock, cock-of-the-woods, or simply capercaillie / ˌ k æ p ər ˈ k eɪ l (j) i /, [3] is a heavy member of the grouse family and the largest of all extant grouse species. The heaviest-known specimen, recorded in captivity, had a weight ...
The genus Tetrao was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [1] The genus name is the Latin word for a game bird, probably a black grouse. [2]
Based on data collected between 2000 and 2003 by Pollo et al. (2005), [4]: 401 the distribution of Cantabrian capercaillie on the southern slope of the Cantabrian Mountains is fragmented into 13 small subpopulations: four in the western area and 9 in the eastern. Six subpopulations (5 in the eastern and 1 in the western) contained only one ...
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Birds of interest include the Cantabrian Capercaillie, a subspecies of the Western Capercaillie, which requires mature woodland to thrive. [2] The park includes extensive woodland. Both SPAs have also been designated as Special Areas of Conservation. [3] [4] The park provides a habitat for the Cantabrian brown bear.
The protected area was founded in 1992 to protect the habitat for western capercaillie. [1] References This page was last edited on 20 August 2024, at 06 ...
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The western section, or Kruja Chain, is an anticline structure composed of carbonate core from the Cretaceous-Eocene period. [19] It begins at the confluence of the rivers of Fan and Mat, rising quickly than the eastern section. At Mali i Krujës, it starts reaching an elevation of more than thousand, to be precise 1,176 metres (3,858 ft).