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Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) <!--바위뇌조(--雷鳥)-->
| Subject: | Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)
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From: Jaap van der Woude
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: sneeuwhoen
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:58:33 +0200
name="alp"
alp.jpg
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From: frankalanna@mosquitonet.com
File To Comment: New/Alpenschneehuhn.jpg
As I'm sure many have told you by now, this is a ptarmigan.
The white plumage phase is winter coloring, the brown & white
mottled is summer coloring.
I see these every day here in Fairbanks, AK.
Alanna
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From: phoby@netsgo.com
File To Comment: New/Alpenschneehuhn.jpg
These are Rock Ptarmigans, Lagopus mutus.
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The Ptarmigan, Lagopus muta, is a medium-sized (31-35 cm or 12-14 inches) gamebird in the grouse family. It is known as Rock Ptarmigan, or colloquially Snow Chicken in North America, where it is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut, Canada.
It is a sedentary species, breeding across arctic and subarctic Eurasia and North America (including Greenland) on rocky mountainsides and tundra. There are isolated populations in the mountains of Scotland, the Pyrenees, the Alps, Bulgaria, the Urals, the Pamir Mountains, the Altay Mountains and Japan. During the last ice age, the species was far more widespread in continental Europe |
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