Red deer Cervus elephus originally lived on the woodland edge, but the large scale reduction of tree cover in Britain over the centuries has forced them to adapt to life on the open hill. Red deer are herbivorous and graze a wide variety of plants from grasses and heather to shrubs and trees. Natural predators such as bears, lynx and wolves are now extinct in Britain although eagles and foxes occasionally prey on very young calves. When red deer numbers become too great for their habitat to support them, they cause great damage to plant species diversity. Today, sensitive and humane management of deer populations is an important part of conservation of young native woodland.m
Neil McIntyre's work is widely published and used in many national magazines like the BBC Wildlife magazine and national newspapers. Organisations like the Scottish Natural Heritage, the Cairngorms National Park Authority and the John Muir Trust are also amongst my clients. In addition to these, his images have also featured in over 25 books.
Over the years Neil has been fortunate to have won several awards in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition including the Eric Hoskings Award in two consecutive years, he also been a category runner up and had a further four images highly commended. In the British Wildlife Photography Awards Neil won the portraits category with an image of a red deer stag, with a further 4 other images having been highly commended in that competition to date.
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