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- noun Plural form of
ptarmigan .
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So they settled on Chicken, since miners also called ptarmigans "tundra chickens."
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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So they settled on Chicken, since miners also called ptarmigans "tundra chickens."
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Because the poem is broken up, page by page, and because children will want to linger over the colorful images of ptarmigans, penguins, roadrunners and grouse along with puffins, boobies, pigeons and a scarlet-bosomed frigatebird, this is a bedtime book that will require reading at least twice.
A Walrus, a Bear, A Cat, Oh My! Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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In honour of my fellow Yellowknifer Janet Pacey and her unabashed love of ptarmigans I finally got off my haunches (which is defined as “the fleshy hindquarter of an animal” – definitely suitable) and got some ptarmigan shots.
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All in all there were eight ptarmigans including the first one I almost stepped on – sorry.
Ptarmigans – Nature’s Perfect Camouflage « Colorado 14Ers « The Blog@www.alanarnette.com 2010
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All in all there were eight ptarmigans including the first one I almost stepped on – sorry.
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This affects especially ptarmigans, capercaillie, and ground birds.
Sapmi~ the communities of Purnumukka, Ochejohka, and Nuorgam climate change case study 2009
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Lemmings and ptarmigans shift habitat seasonally within the same landscapes [78].
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Bursts of willow ptarmigans shot up around us from the berry thickets like brown rockets; golden plovers and curlews were whistling on all sides; within rifle shot a small herd of caribou was feeding, and the little brown cranes were stalking everywhere.
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Two species of the genus Attagis are in almost every respect ptarmigans in their habits; one lives in Tierra del Fuego, above the limits of the forest land; and the other just beneath the snow-line on the Cordillera of Central Chile.
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