Quantifying fenbendazole and its metabolites in self-medicating wild red grouse lagopus lagopus scoticus using an hplc–ms–ms approachOn red grouse estates in the UK the nematode parasite Trichostrongylus tenuis is often controlled by application of grit medicated with the anthelmintic fenbendazole (FBZ)....
Ticks need not bite their red grouse hosts to infect them with louping ill virus.... Here, we demonstrate experimentally a transmission route whereby hosts (red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus) became infected with a member of the tick-borne encephalitis virus complex, louping ill virus, after eating the infected tick vector....
Inter-specific aggression between red grouse, ptarmigan and pheasant... Below, I describe some encounters between red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus and ptarmigan Lagopus muta, and between red grouse and pheasants Phasianus colchicus....
Population responses of red grouse lagopus lagopus scotica to expansion of heather calluna vulgaris cover on a scottish grouse moorLoss of heather Calluna vulgaris-dominated moorland in Britain has been associated with long-term declines in Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica, a gamebird of economic importance....
