Glad I found this!

Here's a picture of a male capercaillie, displaying. Capercaillie are member of the grouse family.



capercaillie aren't just found in Scotland, they're found in several countries in northern Europe, but the capercaillie in Scotland is kind of a symbol for a huge problem in the British isles, in fact a huge problem worldwide. It's habitat destruction.

Here's a female capercaillie..





Capercaillie live in low scrub and pine/oak forests. This is a perfect description of the ancestral Caledonian forest, which is mostly gone, now. Because of that, the numbers of capercaillie have dropped precipitously over the past 100 years, going from something like 30,000 breeding pairs in Scotland, to I believe less than 5,000. That's not a lot of capercaillie in a land which used to be crawling with them.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/bird...llie/index.asp

Here's the tartan, adorning the very attractive frame of Miss Scotland, 2006.



I would wear this tartan, and in fact plan someday to own a kilt in it because 7 percent of the proceeds of the sale of the tartan go to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which understands that the REAL issue here is habitat loss. I don't know another tartan that has a direct connection to a crucial conservation issue with the possible exception of the Antarctic.