white-tailed ptarmigan
snow quail
lagopus leucura latin

The white-tailed ptarmigan is a ground bird that is often seen in the alpine zones.

White-tailed Ptarmigan males are usually monogamous and remain with the same mate for one breeding season.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan has a diet of buds, leaves, flowers and seeds.

He went through a faint golden mist of avalanche lilies, startling a white-tailed ptarmigan.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan is an alpine species, a permanent resident of the high mountains above the timber line.

The disruptively patterned white-tailed ptarmigan is shown in "a very remarkable photograph" by Evan Lewis.

They range in size from the 13-inch White-tailed Ptarmigan to the 28-inch Sage Grouse.

During the summer, the White-tailed Ptarmigan is a speckled grayish brown with white underparts, tail and wings.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan has feathers located on its feet to serve as protection from the extreme cold often experienced in the alpine tundra environment.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan is the smallest of the ptarmigans and the smallest bird in the grouse family.

The White-tailed ptarmigan has an adaption of changing its plumage from white in the winter to brown in the summer in order to camouflage.

Birds also inhabit the park area, such as the arctic tern, blue-grouse, ruffed-grouse and the rock, willow and white-tailed ptarmigan.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan is the only bird in North America to reside permanently in the alpine zone.

Among birds, the white-tailed ptarmigan (lagopus leucurus) are present on the mountain, but so well camouflaged that they are difficult to see even when almost underfoot.

Winter home to 200 to 300 white-tailed ptarmigan, the willows are crisscrossed with narrow trails that in summer are quite muddy and may lead only circuitously to Bierstadt's top.

However, species such as the White-tailed ptarmigan, hoary marmots, and pikas remain in high elevations of the Cascades year round left only to go to patchy and scattered alpine vegetation.

Bird species include golden eagles, sharp shinned hawks, barred owls, pygmy owls, white-tailed ptarmigan, pileated woodpeckers and rufous hummingbirds, as well as several species of chickadees, warblers and nuthatches.

Animals in the upper regions include golden-mantled ground squirrels, Bighorn Sheep, mountain goat, hoary marmot, pika, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, Water Pipit and horned lark.

Willow Ptarmigan is a circumpolar boreal forest species, White-tailed Ptarmigan is a North American alpine bird, and Rock Ptarmigan breeds in both Arctic and mountain habitats across Eurasia and North America.

The lack of overgrazing by cattle, the lack of human development in alpine zones, the difficulty in accessing its remote habitat, the low densities at which it occurs and the laws regarding the limits to hunting bags allow the White-tailed Ptarmigan to thrive.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura) is the smallest bird in the grouse family.

The White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura) in North America is smaller, has a white tail and finely-barred greyer plumage and lives permanently above the tree line.