{{Short description|River in Aberdeenshire, Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:River Muick, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.jpg|thumb|View of the River Muick in the Cairngorms National Park.]] '''River Muick''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ɪ|k}}) is a river of the Grampian Mountains of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|title=Illustrations of the topography and antiquities of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff. Aberdeen 1847-|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oClXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA80|year=1847|page=80}}</ref> A tributary of the River Dee,<ref name="Mackie2012">{{cite book|last=Mackie|first=Alexander|title=Aberdeenshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kxep6ATMFRwC&pg=PA33|date=29 November 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-65352-8|page=33}}</ref> it flows for about {{convert|6|km}} from the southeastern hill area around Lochnagar into Loch Muick on Balmoral Estate.

It has a catchment area of {{convert|110|km2}}.<ref name="Rose2007">{{cite book|last=Rose|first=Neil L.|title=Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aubx7ShSYoEC&pg=PA178|date=1 June 2007|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-3986-7|page=178}}</ref> The river is described as meandering "tightly across the wide valley floor, filled with glacial deposit which has been partly worked flat by the river".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cairngorms.co.uk/uploads/documents/83_pdf.pdf|title=The White Mounth - Upper Glen Muick|publisher=Cairngorms National Park|accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref>

The river is inhabited by salmon.<ref name="Watson2013">{{cite book|last=Watson|first=Adam|title=Mammals in north-east Highlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uP97AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38|date=October 2013|publisher=Paragon Publishing|isbn=978-1-78222-120-3|page=38}}</ref> In the mid 19th century specimens of ''Melampyrum sylvaticum'' and ''Hieracium boreale'' were collected along the banks.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ... Edinburgh, Constable 1819-64. (angl.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVFTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA124|year=1848|publisher=Constable|page=124}}</ref>

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