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Can the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) reintroduction be successful?
Stelšovská, Lenka ; Křenová, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Reif, Jiří (referee)
The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) used to be a common species in Europe but, during the last decades, the species declined rapidly in the western part of its range, i.e. in Central and Western Europe. Decreasing of the habitat quality, inappropriate forest management, climate changes, disturbing by humans (sport & tourisms) together with very only low adaptabity of this species were recognized to be the most important factors threatening Tetrao urogallus. Also predation is a very important stress factor. Numbers of reintroduction projects have been conducted in Europe to improve the situation. This study summarizes current knowledge about reintroduction projects and their effectivity. Most of the projects were not successful very much. Reintroduction projects were implemented also in the Czech Republic in 1998 - 2007 and capercaillies have been released in several regions (Šumava, Český les, Krkonoše, Jeseníky, Moravskoslezské Beskydy, and Brdy). No new populations were established. The reasons for the failure have been found in the insufficient quality of the biotopes, predation, the physiological and ethological deficiencies of the young birds and the ways of their rearing. It is possible to summarize, that the reintroduction projects seem to be low effective but they are not completely...
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