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Capercaillie en vivo (2005). Capercaillie es una banda británica de rock, folk, música gaélica y música tradicional de Escocia, fundada en los años ochenta por Donald Shaw y liderada por Karen Matheson. La banda grabó su primer álbum de estudio, Cascade, en 1984.
The western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), also known as the Eurasian capercaillie, wood grouse, heather cock, cock-of-the-woods, or simply capercaillie / ˌ k æ p ər ˈ k eɪ l (j) i /, is a heavy member of the grouse family and the largest of all extant grouse species.
40 years and counting. From our homeland roots of Argyll in the highlands of Scotland, Capercaillie have been credited with being the major force in bringing traditional Celtic music to the world stage and inspiring the great resurgence so evident today.
The Capercaillie bird is the largest member of the grouse family, reaching over 100 centimetres in length and 4 kilograms in weight. Found across northern Europe and Asia, it is renowned for its unique mating display. Male Capercaillie are called ‘cocks’ and females are called ‘hens’.
A bird of the Old World, capercaillie have been living in our pine forests since the last Ice Age. The largest grouse in the world, powered by pine needles and known in Gaelic as the Horse of the Woods; capercaillie are iconic. In the UK capercaillie are only found in Scotland.
Capercaillie (band) Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band, founded in 1984 by Donald Shaw and led by Karen Matheson, and which performs traditional Gaelic and contemporary songs in English. [1] .
About. The capercaillie is a huge gamebird, the size of a turkey, that lives in the forests of Scotland. Loss of its woodland habitat led to the capercaillie becoming extinct in the UK in the mid-18th century, but birds were reintroduced from Sweden almost a century later.
