A Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or even mutus) occurs as little (31–35 cm yearn) bird in the grouse family. These are the sedentary metal money, breeding through arctic and subarctic Eurasia and North America (including Greenland) on bumpy versant & 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.

Inside America these are known as a Rock Ptarmigan, or even conversationally Snow Chicken. This is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut, Canada.

A Eurasian spring male has gray upperparts using whiten wings & underparts. North American birds are further variable, existence typically browner, however inside a few Aleutian populations virtually nigrify. A Northerly Our contries females come red. Around wintertime, two sexes' feather becomes totally white except for the melanize rear end. It may be distinguished from either a wintertime Willow Grouse (Willow Ptarmigan in Northward United states) by home ground, little size, extra delicate bill &, in a wintertime male, black between the eye & bill.

A male's song occurs as loudly croaky.

Which are actually healthy vegetarian birds, but insects are also taken per underdeveloped young.

A female will require everthing responsibility for incubation & treating a chicks, when is average using gamebirds.

A word ptarmigan comes from either a Scottish Gaelic tàrmachan, which may be related to torm "murmur". A silent intiial p was added in the 17th century through the influence of Greek, especially pteron, Greek for "wing".