Capercaillie Emergency Plan scientific advisory group meeting notes - December 2025

This document contains meeting notes from the Scientific Advisory Group for the Capercaillie Emergency Plan. The group discussed updates on research using advanced scanning technology to understand forest habitats and surveys on encouraging behaviours that help capercaillie. A key focus was reviewing the draft Research and Monitoring Plan, looking at its long-term goals up to 2045, and how it connects with the main Emergency Plan. They agreed on using indicators like capercaillie breeding success and national surveys to measure progress, alongside needing continued funding and support for a special computer model, the Capercaillie Integrated Population Model, to track population changes.