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Image 1 — Did the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) and the willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) went extinct in the Voronezh Nature Reserve ?

Image 2 — Did the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) and the willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) went extinct in the Voronezh Nature Reserve ?

Image 3 — Did the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) and the willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) went extinct in the Voronezh Nature Reserve ?

Image 4 — Did the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) and the willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) went extinct in the Voronezh Nature Reserve ?

Did the brown bear (Ursus arctos), the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) and the willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) went extinct in the Voronezh Nature Reserve ?

The reason behind my question is that I recently saw footage of all of these animals in Forest Tale (Лесная быль,1949) and Forest Symphony (Лесная симфония,1967) wich both were filmed in the reserve according to the reserve website.

However nowadays the bear, cappercaillie, black groose and willow ptarmigan ranges don't go as much south and there are no records of them or no mentions of them even in regions nearby.

So did they went extinct in that region (which is located in the East European forest steppe) ? And if yes, is it because of over hunting or because of climate change that made that region less suitable for them ?

u/StaffInternational54 — 3 days ago