13 Willow Ptarmigan

• Main Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2008
• Subjects: Ornithology; Arctic; Baffin Island; Boothia Peninsula; Greenland; Southampton Island; Baffin; Banks Island; Newfoundland; Victoria Island; Alaska; Melville Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscigrouse/15; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/bioscigrouse/article/1014/viewcontent/13_Willow_Ptarmigan.pdf

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