Capercaillie conservation in Scotland is making incremental progress through combined predator management, brood protection, and habitat restoration. Individual bird welfare is monitored through GPS tagging of key individuals.
Capercaillie population recovery is progressing slowly but provides direct welfare benefits to individual birds through improved habitat quality, reduced predation pressure, and monitored management of disturbance. Each successfully fledged capercaillie chick represents a direct welfare outcome of conservation investment. Sustaining and expanding the management effort that has produced population stabilisation is essential.