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I recently spent 10 days in the forests of Finland. I was there as part of a research trip to understand a bit more about curlew breeding habitats, but within a few hours it became clear that grouse are the headline act in that part of the world.
Even as I arrived in the warm half-darkness of a Finnish twilight, black grouse were noisily displaying on a bog near the wood cabin