Rare birds thought to be in danger of extinction are making a comeback in Wales.
The number of rare black grouse in a part of north Wales is almost back to 2011 record breaking high numbers (328 lekking males were counted) thanks to work to protect them and improve their habitat.
In north Wales, there were only around 140 displaying black grouse males left in 1980s and the extinction of one of Wales’s most enigmatic bird seemed likely.
But recent dawn surveys by staff from Natural Resources Wales, RSPB Cymru, Denbighshire County Council and many other organisations, has revealed that almost 320 lekking males were counted this spring. So following two years of lower counts (2012 there were 297 counted and in 2013, 249 were counted), black grouse numbers seem to be making a comeback.
The bird has been in serious decline and had disappeared from all of south and most of mid-Wales by 2000, matching declines in England and other parts of western Europe.
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