The Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) is a northern Eurasian (Palearctic) species of grouse and the largest member of the family, a mature male weighting up to about seven kilograms (approximately sixteen pounds). The females are only about half as big as the males, and differently patterned. Numerous artists, such as the Swedish Bruno Liljefors (1860 – 1939) and the Finnish Ferdinand von Wright (1822 – 1906), have brilliantly shown this species in its famous breeding display, usually males challenging each other. Since this was just an experiment for me I decided to leave it at just a single male, and to make it more original I showed one of the “white bellied” eastern subspecies, T. u. taczanowskii, not normally featured in paintings of capercaillies. It is found in Central Siberia south into northwestern Mongolia and eastern Kazakhstan. There are about a dozen subspecies of Western Capercaillie, most obviously varying by the amount of white on the belly of males, black with some white spots in the west (Europe), but with the amount of white increasing moving east. Monoculture timber plantations have replaced much natural habitat, and is not suitable for capercaillie. They require openings and old mixed forests blended with both evergreen and broadleaf tree species and good ground cover with lots of heath berries and healthy invertebrate population – chicks consume a lot of insects.