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Hares are strongly associated with the heather moorland that is managed for red grouse.
By Will Finch
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Scottish heather moorland managed for grouse shooting provides the best habitat for mountain hare, says a new report by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
Grouse shooting benefits mountain hares.
The report was commissioned to establish whether counts of mountain hare droppings could be used to develop a reliable method for estimating the animal’s population density.
The report states: “Hares are strongly associated with the heather moorland that is managed for red grouse — where they likely benefit from habitat management and predator control aimed at improving grouse densities.”
SNH says that counting droppings has worked to estimate numbers of the closely-related North American snowshoe hare, but admits that “unfortunately the results [in this case] do not provide us with the outcome we had envisaged.”
The report concludes that further work is needed: “In order to better inform our understanding of the conservation status of mountain hares, a reliable, cost-effective and straightforward method of counting hares is required.”
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