Mystery surrounds the first extinction of capercaillie in Scotland around 1770, although the disappearance of what would most likely have been an indigenous subspecies has been attributed to the loss of Caledonian forest. It wasn’t until 1837 that capercaillie reappeared in Scotland, when Norfolk squire SirThomas Buxton arranged for his Irish gamekeeper, Larry Banville, to travel to Sweden to capture capercaillie for
