Capercaillie Emergency Plan 2025 - 2030 - Flipbook - Page 26
8. The delivery cost is estimated to be ~£3 per hectare per year for staff time to
process deer culled over the winter and deploy to feeding sites in the spring.
This approach of freezing and redeployment guarantees food is available in
the spring and means only waste biproducts are used instead of venison.
9. To monitor impact on productivity and chick survival, trail cameras can be
deployed on dust baths (or potential dust baths) within feeding zones with
the aim of capturing images of female capercaillie and chicks. The cost of
this approach is estimated to be ~£4 per hectare in total for a 5-year period
for trail cameras, batteries and SD cards and time to deploy and manage the
cameras, and process and analyse the images.
10. 48 trail cameras purchased by the Cairngorms Capercaillie Project are
available to use as part of the Capercaillie Emergency Plan.
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Image of a male capercaillie
by Mark Hamblin
