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Gamekeepers and land managers have expressed bafflement after RSPB Scotland blamed wet spring weather for the catastrophic decline in capercaillie numbers. (Read more on the plight of the capercaillie.) The claim follows the publication of the results of the organisation’s latest capercaillie survey, which found that just 542 of the birds remain in the wild in Scotland. This year’s survey is the sixth national count of the birds, with counts having taken place every six years for nearly four decades. The survey team searched for feathers, droppings and the birds themselves in Badenoch and Strathspey, Easter Ross, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Deeside and Perthshire. The survey adds to the already large body of evidence that capercaillie are in serious decline with almost three quarters of the population having disappeared since the 2003/2004 survey. RSPB Scotland, which led the survey work, blamed the declines on factors “ranging from cold, wet spring weather impacting the fitness of f

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