Rock Ptarmigan
Lagopus muta · Bird
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A grouse of barren rocky mountainsides and tundra, from Greenland, Iceland and the Arctic to the Alps, Pyrenees and Japanese Alps, white in winter and grey-brown in summer. Its feathered feet work as snowshoes, and in winter it gathers in flocks and moves down to lower, more sheltered ground. It is a popular game bird of the Alaskan back country and a prized dish of Icelandic festive meals; it is the bird of Nunavut and gave its Sámi name to the Swedish town of Kiruna.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In flocks, by day
- Size
- Tiny
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Alpine Meadow, Tundra, Barrens
Gives
Sources
- Mary Hejna, Lagopus muta (rock ptarmigan). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2002.
- Rock ptarmigan. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Lagopède alpin. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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