Kingussie, United Kingdom

On 9 January 2025, two lynx that had been illegally released were captured after being sighted in the Drumguish area near Kingussie. They were placed in quarantine at Highland Wildlife Park, with plans to transfer them to Edinburgh Zoo. On 10 January police reported that two more lynx had been spotted in the same area and were later captured. One of these lynx died overnight after being captured.

Despite the more recent language shift to Highland English, the community is important to both the history of Scottish Gaelic literature and to that of Scottish traditional music. Firstly, the Gaelic Bard Donnchadh Gobha (c. 1730–1825) lived out his old age in Kingussie.

Fr. Ranald Rankin (c. 1785–1863), formerly an outlawed "heather priest" for the Catholic Church in Scotland and the lyricist of the famous Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh Chrìosda, was assigned to Kingussie. It was during the aftermath of Catholic Emancipation in 1829 and Fr. Rankin worked very hard to raise money to build the first post-Reformation Catholic parish church in Badenoch, but was transferred to Moidart in 1838, well before it was completed.

According to census data, 53.9% of the residents of Kingussie spoke Gaelic in 1891. This number fell sharply at the turn of the century, and now only about 1.8% of the population report any proficiency in the language in 2001. As a result, scholar Kent C. Duwe terms it a part of the "Gaelic diaspora, showing only slightly higher language incidence than the national mean."