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UK
/tˈɑːmɪɡən/
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NOUN
- large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
How To Use ptarmigan In A Sentence
- A brace of ptarmigan flutter away for dear life.
- In The Big Year we relive their searches up snowy mountains to see ptarmigan, their boat trips to see noddies and albatrosses, their chartered helicopter rides to see Himalayan snowcocks in the Nevada desert.
- In times when alternative foods such as snowshoe hares and ptarmigan were also in low numbers, there was suffering and death among the people. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, United States
- This affects especially ptarmigans, capercaillie, and ground birds. Sapmi~ the communities of Purnumukka, Ochejohka, and Nuorgam climate change case study
- Skiers will only be allowed access to the downhill skiing slopes, while non-skiing visitors will be confined to the Ptarmigan centre.
- 1831 OW sturnine swallow 1809 ibidine ibis 1875 OW OW tetraonine grouse, laridine gull, etc. 1877 ptarmigan, etc. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
- Flocks of migratory shorebirds are yet to arrive, but small coveys of rock ptarmigan are already roaming about.
- They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
- 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. Ptarmigan Town » Dave Brosha Photography
- Large birds including ptarmigan and waterfowl are the most common prey item of the Gyrfalcon.
