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Subject: Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)
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Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)


From: Donald Mathis
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: Rock Ptarmigan
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 07:37:54 -0500
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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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