One of Scotland’s first wildcat kittens born in the wild has been caught on camera.
Wildcats released by Saving Wildcats are fitted with GPS-radio collars so that they can be monitored.
However, the wild-born offspring are not collared because tracking collars cannot be fitted to growing animals.
The Saving Wildcats partnership, led by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, is working to restore Scotland’s critically endangered wildcat population by breeding and releasing them into the wild and mitigating threats to the species.
This year, females released by the project have given birth in the wild.
Saving Wildcats said the felines are now living across Badenoch and Strathspey.
“We will continue to monitor them using camera traps, but will increasingly rely on public sightings to keep track of this new and growing population,” a spokesperson said.
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