A project has begun to relocate birds from the North Pennines to the North York Moors.
Black grouse "lekking" - where males gather to compete for femalesConservationists say the birds are largely restricted to the North Pennines, between the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland, and have been carrying out work to create a more suitable environment to the moorland in North Yorkshire.
The GWCT said while there had been "sporadic sightings" of black grouse in the North York Moors, there had been no record of them breeding there since the 1840s. The project will involve capturing the birds at night and relocating them immediately to a specially selected site on the North York Moors, with some fitted with radio transmitters to help track their movements.
The project is being led by researchers from the GWCT Uplands team and funded with £164,000 from Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme Capital Grant Scheme.Black grouse are large birds that live on moorlands and forest edges. According to the Woodland Trust, their populations are in “serious decline”.They are best known for their early morning, spring-time gatherings, called "leks", where the males gather to compete for females.
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