From: Donald Mathis
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: Willow Ptarmigan
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 07:52:21 -0500
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Willow Grouse (Europe) or Willow Ptarmigan (North America), Lagopus lagopus, is a medium-sized gamebird in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, breeding in birch and other forests and tundra across northern Eurasia, and in Alaska and northern Canada. It is the state bird of Alaska. During the last ice age, the species occurred in continental Europe.