Vault

Endangered life vault

Recordings and documentation of threatened species, their calls and their places.

5 published records. Locations are shown only as precisely as it is safe to show them.

Catalogue

5 records

EndangeredT2 DocumentedRegion only

The last documented native capercaillie in Scotland, before reintroduction in the 1830s.

1770 to 1785Scottish Highlands

EndangeredT1 RecordedGeneralised to about 50 km

Male display call recorded at a spring lek in a Scottish pinewood. Location generalised to protect the lek.

2019Cairngorms region, Scotland

EndangeredT2 DocumentedRestricted

A documented recording of a wildcat call from a conservation project. Region only.

2021Badenoch, Scottish Highlands

EndangeredT1 RecordedRestricted

The low booming call of a male kākāpō, embedded from the holding archive.

2022Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand

EndangeredT2 DocumentedGeneralised to about 50 km

A spring count of displaying males at a monitored lek. Location generalised.

2023Abernethy area, Cairngorms, Scotland

Every record in this vault is a direct record (T1) or a documented account (T2). No reconstruction methods are used.

Time and location rules for all vaults are on the Methods and Ethics pages.