Papers in the Biological Sciences
Title
13 Willow Ptarmigan
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
May 2008
Lagopus lagopus (Linnaeus) 1758
Other vernacular names: Alaska ptarmigan, Alexander ptarmigan, Allen ptarmigan, Arctic grouse, red grouse (Scotland form), Scottish grouse, white grouse, white-shafted ptarmigan, willow grouse, willow partridge.
Range: Circumpolar. In North America from northern Alaska, Banks Island,
Melville Island, Victoria Island, Boothia Peninsula, Southampton Island,
Baffin Island, and central Greenland south to the Alaska Peninsula, southeastern
Alaska, central British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,
central Ontario, central Quebec, and Newfoundland
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From Grouse and Quails of North America, by Paul A. Johnsgard (Lincoln, NE, 1973 & 2008). Electronic edition copyright © 2008 Paul A. Johnsgard.