Capercaillie display call, Cairngorms
Male display call recorded at a spring lek in a Scottish pinewood. Location generalised to protect the lek.
2019 · Cairngorms region, Scotland · CTF-END-000001
Clicking phrases rising to a cork-pop, then a gurgle. Placeholder audio.
About this record
The clicking and cork-pop phrases of a displaying male, recorded before dawn in April. Capercaillie are highly sensitive to disturbance at leks, so the recording location is shown as a 50 km cell.
Connections
Extinct relative
- Parasaurolophus walkeri holotype, ROM 768T1 Recorded76.5 to 74 Ma · link T3
Birds are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs; hadrosaurs are a more distant branch. The link illustrates deep-time kinship rather than direct descent.
Brusatte, S. L. et al. (2015). The origin and diversification of birds. Current Biology 25(19).
Inhabits
- Pinewood podzol profile, AbernethyT1 Recorded2021 · link T1
The lek lies in the same pinewood as the described soil profile.
Chronos Terra field survey 2021 and lek records 2019.
Same taxon
- Capercaillie lek count, AbernethyT2 Documented2023 · link T1
Same species and the same pinewood.
Chronos Terra catalogue.
- Capercaillie extinct in Scotland, 1785T2 Documented1770 to 1785 · link T2
The species lost in 1785 and the species recorded in 2019 are the same, via reintroduction.
Historical accounts and the Chronos Terra catalogue.
Depicted in
- Capercaillie in a Victorian sporting engravingT2 Documented1860 to 1880 · link T2
The engraving shows the same species in the same display posture heard in the recording.
Engraving catalogue entry (illustrative).
Named by
- Gaelic pinewood words, Badenoch speakerT1 Recorded2018 · link T1
The speaker gives the Gaelic name of the capercaillie.
Chronos Terra field recording 2018.