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	National Park Service: Fauna3 (Birds)
		By watching the male ptarmigan in the treetop we found that he was standing guard over his brooding mate, and, by waiting and watching, we discovered the hen ptarmigan when she slipped off her nest to feed.
		The hen ptarmigan did not dare remain long off her nest, because there were numerous robbers in the form of long-tailed jaegers and short-billed gulls which made a regular practice of seeking for and destroying the eggs of other birds.
		The male ptarmigan does not abandon his mate, but seems to realize that his garb is so conspicuous that if he remains too near the nest he will betray his mate and endanger their treasures in the nest.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/fauna3/fauna9e.htm (3317 words)

	Ptarmigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or mutus) is a small (31–35 cm long) bird in the grouse family.
		There are isolated populations in the mountains of Scotland, the Pyrenees, the Alps, Bulgaria, the Urals, the Pamir Mountains, the Altay Mountains, and Japan.
		They can be distinguished from the winter Willow Grouse (Willow Ptarmigan in North America) by habitat, smaller size, more delicate bill and, in the winter male, fl between the eye and bill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptarmigan (270 words)

	Ptarmigan: Mystical Birds of The Far North
		With the coming of snow and declining photoperiodism, ptarmigan plumage shifts to an ivory color, masking these birds to near perfection in their stark surroundings.
		Ptarmigan are challenging to locate by eye, so quality optics and patience are essential tools of the game.
		Ptarmigan voices are to their environment as loons are to secluded lakes; both are mesmerizing and captivating in their own, unique way.
	www.cabelas.com /information/cabelasfieldguides/UplandGameBirdsGrousePtarmigan/PtarmiganMysticalBirdsofTheFarNorth.html (1102 words)

	Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
		Ptarmigan were reported on Agattu Island by the local Aleuts before 1886 but were not found there by Olaus Murie in 1936.
		Today, Evermann's rock ptarmigan is confined to a single island, Attu, with an estimated population of 1,000 birds prior to the eradication of foxes there in 1999.
		Although nomadic elsewhere in Alaska, ptarmigan in the Aleutians are resident.
	alaskamaritime.fws.gov /whatwedo/bioprojects/restorebiodiversity/ptarmigan.htm (330 words)

	White Mountain Mining Partners v. Ptarmigan Company (11/24/95), 906 P 2d 1357
		A few days later counsel for Ptarmigan filed an affidavit which stated that she and counsel for Bolt had arranged that on December 4, 1991, she would be allowed to inspect eight boxes of documents belonging to the defendants.
		While the motion for sanctions was pending, Ptarmigan moved to have the case set for trial, stating that, "[w]ith the court's assistance in enforcing discovery through sanctions, all meaningful discovery can be completed in the next 60 days." Bolt's counsel obtained an extension of time in which to respond to the motion for sanctions.
		And she was forced to back down on that when it became evident that to be safe from her perspective she would have to have access to the documents; have to have an opportunity to examine them; and that inevitably that would require a substantial delay of the trial.
	www.touchngo.com /sp/html/sp-4286.htm (3765 words)

	Rock Ptarmigan in Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Rock Ptarmigan is distinquished from it by the fl line from the beak through the eye.
		Both species have white plummage in the winter and mottled brown or gray plummage in summer, but the rock ptarmigan tends to lose the winter plummage later than the willow.
		The ptarmigan genus is named Lagopus, "rabbit footed" for the furry feathers on its feet.
	www.angelfire.com /journal/turtles/rockptarmigan.html (145 words)

	Rock Ptarmigan
		he ground-dwelling rock ptarmigans depend on camouflage for defense, and to achieve this in the changing background of their northerly range, they adopt different plumages.
		The summer plumage is mottled to blend with the forest, while during the winter snows ptarmigans have white plumage, only the tail feathers remaining dark.
		Rock ptarmigans feed on leaves, buds, fruits and seeds and on some insects in the summer.
	mbgnet.mobot.org /sets/tundra/animals/ptar.html (126 words)

	Ptarmigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptarmigan, later Evelyn, was probably the last of the Condor class of fast, triple-funneled, sloop-rigged paddle Steamers delivered to the Confederate Navy through Comdr.
		In Halifax 27 October she was still Ptarmigan; in Bermuda, 16 November, she was Evelyn and acquired a coat of white paint the better to conceal her movements.
		Her crew had a siege with yellow fever at Bermuda, along with the men of Flamingo, her sister, during that autumn, but the ship seems to have gotten underway again and is believed to have survived the war.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/cfa8/ptarmigan.htm (192 words)

	Ptarmigan: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		Ptarmigan, close relatives of forest and prairie grouse, live in alpine and arctic tundras throughout the northern hemisphere.
		General description: Ptarmigan look just like small grouse, weighing from 10 1/2 ounces to 1 1/2 pounds (0.3-0.7 kg) except that their toes are feathered, their wings are white all year, and they have pure white body plumage in winter.
		Ptarmigan are nomadic in winter, moving erratically from one sheltered slope or patch of food to another from November to March.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/bird/ptarmiga.php (1075 words)

	Colorado Guide - Ptarmigan
		The ptarmigan is a small grouse, with feathers on its legs and feet.
		As a predator approaches, the ptarmigan will burst into flight at the last possible moment, which generally startles the predator enough for the ptarmigan to escape.
		Ptarmigans are easily viewed and photographed once discovered.
	www.coloradoguide.com /birds/ptarmigan.cfm (434 words)

	Ptarmigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If a buffered source is used, Ptarmigan will limit the number of bytes it consumes for non-playlist sources, permitting you to rewind as necessary to the start of the audio data for one-pass usage.
		Ptarmigan concentrates instead on streams for more efficient parsing of remote sources where you don't have to download the entire file before you can extract the metadata.
		Ptarmigan is in 'alpha' which means that its feature set is still being worked upon.
	ptarmigan.sourceforge.net (1020 words)

	SPATIAL SEPARATION OF SEXES IN ROCK AND WILLOW PTARMIGAN IN WINTER
		Ptarmigan were observed daily 14 through 19 October; informa- tion was recorded on flock size and composition as to sex (Table 2).
		WILLOW PTARMIGAN The only data available on segregation of sexes in Willow Ptarmigan are from examinations of carcasses, since it is not possible to distinguish the sexes in winter from external characteristics visible at a distance.
		The sex of Rock Ptarmigan could be determined in fall, winter, and spring by the presence of a fl loral stripe in males.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v081n04/p0534-p0541.html (5464 words)

	American Ptarmigan
		It is less than the Scotch Ptarmigan, and its wings are much shorter, and even more concave; and in these respects it corresponded with the other two specimens, which however had the plumage pure white, with the exception of the tail-feathers and the shafts of the primaries.
		In the present state of our knowledge as to the changes and variations of plumage in Ptarmigans, it is impossible to form a decided opinion in many instances; nor will the subject be free of doubt until each alleged species has been traced through all its gradations.
		A specimen in the Museum of the Andersonian Institution, marked "Lagopus vulgaris, Ptarmigan, Melville's Island," is a male in winter plumage.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F32_G2b.html (847 words)

	Willow Ptarmigan description
		Ptarmigan are named for their feathered legs and feet that serve as "avian snowshoes", hence the genus name, Lagopus which is Greek for "hare-footed".
		In the winter, Willow Ptarmigan move to lower elevations and browse primarily on twigs of willow.
		Willow Ptarmigan were most dense in the Three Fingers Subalpine Basin (TF) and the Upper Charley Valleys (UC) ecological units during the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Bird Iinventory, June 1999 and 2000.
	www.nps.gov /yuch/Expanded/key_resources/birds/species_descriptions/wipt_description.htm (707 words)

	White-tailed Ptarmigan
		I last saw white-tailed ptarmigan in late August at Upper Rumble Lake in the Swan Range, which at 8,000 feet is the highest northwestern Montana lake that supports fish.
		Unlike North America’s other two ptarmigan species, the white-tailed ptarmigan has a white tail year-round, thus its scientific name, a Latinized version of the Greek leukos (white) and oura (tail.) The white-tailed ptarmigan is a mottled gray brown in the summer with a white tail, underside, and wings.
		In winter, white-tailed ptarmigan eat conifer needles and the buds and twigs of alders and alpine willows.
	fwp.state.mt.us /mtoutdoors/HTML/Articles/Portraits/Ptarmigan.htm (647 words)

	Willow Ptarmigan
		The Willow Ptarmigan is found only in the colder regions of North America.
		Willow ptarmigan are fairly large birds, the size of a small chicken.
		Some ptarmigan populations will migrate south in the winter though it often depends on the severity of the winter.
	www.kidzone.ws /animals/birds/willow_ptarmigan.htm (382 words)

	Ptarmigan - Labrador Wildlife - A Scoff an' Scuff
		Ptarmigan - Labrador Wildlife - A Scoff an' Scuff
		The white bump in middle of the shrubs is actually a ptarmigan sporting its winter plumage.
		It is said that these birds are so dumb that if you shoot at one and miss, all you have to do is turn the gun around and hit it over the head with the gunstock.
	www.ascoffanscuff.com /lab/wild/wild11.html (124 words)

	Ptarmigan Cup Challenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most members of the Ptarmigan Nordic Ski Club are recreational skiers.
		The club is continuing the "Ptarmigan Cup Challenge", a series of 5 races on the Birchwood Trails in the 2004/2005 season.
		To minimise the organisational burden, the first 3 races are not organized as events (like the Ptarmigan Loppet and the Frozen Nose & Toes), but rather on an "arrive and race" basis.
	www.geocities.com /ptarmigannordic/PtarmiganCup2005.html (151 words)

	Arctic Studies Center
		Ptarmigan are small chicken-like birds which live year round in the arctic lands, and are found most commonly on tundra hiding in rocks or bushes.
		Ptarmigan can fly, but they usually like to walk slowly and eat berries and leaves from the tundra plants.
		Ere long the flocks of Ptarmigan are seen approaching skimming along close to the snow-covered earth in the dim twilight, and a moment later, as the first birds come in contact with the obstacle, the men press the net down upon the snow sometimes securing fifty to sixty birds."
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/html/ptarmigen.html (234 words)

	Hike of the Week: Ptarmigan Lake, Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This can be destination enough for a picnic or overnight camping, or continue around the north shore of the lake about 4 miles to the eastern end, which also offers good campsites.
		The southern trailhead, for Ptarmigan Creek Trail, leaves from Ptarmigan Creek Campground (elevation 450 feet) at mile 23.2 of the Seward Highway.
		Ptarmigan Creek Trail is closed to horses from April 1 through June 30 and to motorized vehicles May 1 through November 30.
	classic.mountainzone.com /hike/hotw/ak/sc/ptarmiganlk (686 words)

	The (official authorized) Ptarmigan page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptarmigan in 1971 : Glen Dias and Monte Nordstrom,
		In the summertime the ptarmigan is mostly brown, but in the wintertime the ptarmigan's feathers turn to pure white.
		This ptarmigan is changing from summer to fall colors with the first snowfall.
	psychedelicfolk.homestead.com /Ptarmigan.html (1974 words)

	Insanity: Ptarmigan comes a'calling
		The only charge to take "possession" of Ptarmigan is the $30 for the cat carrier that is to be used to transport him.
		Ptarmigan has been submissive if not oblivious to the fact that he's being hissed at.
		I do put Ptarmigan away in his room at night (so I can sleep, and so that the cats who are used to sleeping with me can continue to do so), and if I'm going to be gone from home for any number of hours (just in case...).
	users.rcn.com /tdiann/insanity.htm (773 words)

	Hike of the Week: Ptarmigan Lake, Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		High grasses may obscure the turnoff to the northern trail when you return from Ptarmigan Lake, so the loop is best hiked beginning at the northern trailhead.
		A sign may mark the trailhead: "Falls Creek 3; Ptarmigan Lake Access Trail 1." The trail is not well maintained, however, so signs may be down.
		The routes to Ptarmigan Lake are not suitable for bikes.
	hike.mountainzone.com /hotw/ak/sc/ptarmiganlk (691 words)

	Ptarmigan pioneers island-hop in Aleutians, Alaska Science Forum
		The leader of the project to restock Agattu with Evermann’s rock ptarmigan is Wildlife biologist Steve Ebbert of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in Homer.
		The non-migratory ptarmigan may have survived on Attu because the mountainous terrain provided a refuge from foxes, which prefer to hunt near shoreline, Ebbert said.
		The Evermann’s variety of ptarmigan is unique to Attu, differing from other varieties of Alaska’s state bird by its color and genetic makeup.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF17/1705.html (713 words)

	Rock Ptarmigan description
		Ptarmigan are named for their feathered legs and feet that serve as "avian snowshoes" and thus, belong to the genus, Lagopus (Greek for "hare-footed").
		All three species of ptarmigan (Rock Ptarmigan, Willow Ptarmigan and White-tailed Ptarmigan) occur in Alaska, although the Rock and Willow Ptarmigan are most common.
		Rock Ptarmigan were detected only in the Upper Charley Valleys (UC), Upper Charley Mountain Tundra (MT) and Snowy Domes ecological units during the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Bird inventory, June 1999 and 2000.
	www.nps.gov /yuch/Expanded/key_resources/birds/species_descriptions/ropt_description.htm (562 words)

	Ptarmigan
		Ptarmigan (AM–376) was laid down 9 March 1944 by Savannah Machine and Foundry Co., Savannah, Ga.; launched 15 July 1944; sponsored by Miss Jeanne Summerlin; and commissioned 15 January 1945, Lt. Alexander B. Barrett in command.
		Ptarmigan departed for the Pacific 1 May 1945.
		Ptarmigan received one battle star for World War II service, and four stars for Korean service.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p13/ptarmigan.htm (310 words)

	Syd Allan: Ptarmigan Bay, N.W.T.
		Ptarmigan Bay, a community of 1,000 people in the Canadian arctic, fully embraced all of the elements of modern information technology and the use of the Internet.
		Ptarmigan Bay is a community of 1,000 people in the Northwest Territories region of the Canadian arctic.
		The Ptarmigan Bay project participants, in their outline of the expansion of working holidays in their community, began to speculate on whether they could hold business conferences in their community.
	www.jagular.com /ptarmiganbay.shtml (1877 words)

	Animals of Alaska: Ptarmigan Hotlist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ptarmigan New Hampshire Public Television has put together a very easy to use web page so that you can learn about characteristics, range, habitat, food, reproduction, and behavior.
		Rock Ptarmigan This journal mixes in good information with the story of their trip.
		Patuxent Bird Glossary Even though this glossary is not just about the Ptarmigan you can click on the links to see an image with detailed labels of the different parts of a bird.
	www.iwebquest.com /alaska/webquest/animals/ptarmigan.htm (128 words)

	NatureWorks - Willow Ptarmagin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The willow ptarmigan is a small grouse with a red comb over its eyes.
		The willow ptarmigan's range stretches from Alaska to Labrador and south to central British Columbia, northern Ontario, and central Quebec.
		In the winter, the willow ptarmigan often flies into snow banks and nestles in the snow to sleep.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/willowptarmagin.htm (263 words)

	White-tailed Ptarmigan - Discover The Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All ptarmigan appear similar to a small grouse, and the white-tailed ptarmigan is the smallest of the species.
		White-tailed ptarmigan are found from Alaska to the Yukon and south to Washington and northern New Mexico.
		It is quite probable that the white-tailed ptarmigan inhabited a portion of the state of California during the Ice Ages, died, and now have been re-introduced.
	www.dto.com /hunting/species/generalprofile.jsp?speciesid=279 (729 words)

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