Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Grouse :: Rock Ptarmigan

Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta

Described by: Montin (1776)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors

Photographs

Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA - Jun 19, 2007 © Glen Tepke  Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA - Jun 19, 2007 © Glen Tepke  Iceland - Jun, 1996 © Giuliano Gerra and Silvio Sommazzi  Iceland - Jun, 1996 © Giuliano Gerra and Silvio Sommazzi  Location unknown - Date unknown Courtesy of Karen Bollinger/USFWS 
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Range

Holarctic up to 83ºN;
(1) Spitsbergen (Svalbard), Franz Josef Land and Bear Is.
(2) N. Scandinavia (Norway, n. Sweden, n. Finland) and ex. nw. Russia (Kola Peninsula).
(3) Scotland.
(4) Border of France and Spain in the Pyrenees Mountains above 2000m.
(5) Border of France and Switzerland in the Alps from Savoie to c. Austria above 2000m.
(6) N. Ural Mountains.
(7) Cn. Siberia from the Taimyr Peninsula to the Chukotsky Peninsula.
(8) S. Siberia (Tarbagatai Mountains on the Kazakhstan-Mongolia border).
(9) C. Asia in s. Siberia and n. Mongolia (Altai Mountains above 5000m, Sayan Mountains, Khangai Mountains and others).
Undescribed population in the Pamir Alai Mountains, Tadjikistan.
(10) Se. Siberia from Lake Baikal to Amurland and the Sea of Okhotsk.
(11) Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East.
(12) Commander Is.
(13) N. and c. Kuril Is.
(14) Japan (c. Honshu) and Hondo Is.
(15) W. Aleutian Is. (Attu Is.).
(16) W. Aleutian Is. (Kiska Is.).
(17) W. Aleutian Is. (Amchitka Is.).
(18) C. Aleutian Is. (Tanaga Is. and Kanaga Is.).
(19) C. Aleutian Is. (Adak Is.).
(20) Ec. Aleutian Is. (Atka Is.).
(21) E. Aleutian Is. (Yunaska Is.)
(22) E. Aleutian Is. (Unimal, Unalaska, Unimak and Amaknak Is.).
(23) Se. Alaska and Glacier Bay Is.
(24) C. Alaska and n. Yukon.
(25) N. Canada from c. British Columbia n. and e. to Mackenzie (Melville Is., Ellesmere Is., Southampton Is.), Keewatin, n. Quebec and s. Labrador).
(26) E. Greenland.
(27) Nw. Greenland.
(28) Sw. Greenland.
(29) Newfoundland.
(30) Iceland (headwaters of the Jokulsa a Dal and Jokulsa a Fljotsdal near the ne. edge of the Vatnajokull glacier and the Snaefell volcano and the deltas of these rivers at Utherad).
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North America n. of Mexican border;
Summer and winter: ALK, sw. BCO, YUK, sw. BCO, s. MAC, s. KEE, ne. QUE, n. LAB, most of NFD;
Winter: ex. n. ALB, ex. ne. SAS, n. MAN, and occasionally s. in n. ONT, and c. QUE;

Videos

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Sounds

Location unknown - Date unknown Source: ETI BioInformatics

References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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