How To Use Ptarmigan In A Sentence
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A brace of ptarmigan flutter away for dear life.
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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.
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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
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This affects especially ptarmigans, capercaillie, and ground birds.
Sapmi~ the communities of Purnumukka, Ochejohka, and Nuorgam climate change case study
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Skiers will only be allowed access to the downhill skiing slopes, while non-skiing visitors will be confined to the Ptarmigan centre.
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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
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Flocks of migratory shorebirds are yet to arrive, but small coveys of rock ptarmigan are already roaming about.
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They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
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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.
Ptarmigan Town » Dave Brosha Photography
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Large birds including ptarmigan and waterfowl are the most common prey item of the Gyrfalcon.
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Snow depth and spring temperatures in April and May had little impact on breeding phenology of alpine ptarmigan, but delayed snowmelt in June 1995 caused hardship.
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In ‘Savings in a Snowbank’, Peter Marchand notes that ptarmigans and grouse often take refuge under a blanket of snow on cold nights, having ‘caught on to a trick no others use.’
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The ride itself ‘on one of the widest funiculars in the world’ takes seven minutes with a single upload of 120 standing passengers, whisking its clients from 2,100 feet to Ptarmigan Station at 3,600 feet.
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Birds include species of swan goose Anser cygnoides, crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus, black kite Milvus migrans, hawk owl Sunia ulula, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and great bustard Otis tarda.
Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation
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Animal life is quite varied, consisting of diverse mammals: the wild northern reindeer; furbearing animals such as Arctic foxes, red foxes, rabbit, stoats, musquashes, and so forth; ptarmigan; and waterfowl.
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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!
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The biologist and writer Julian Huxley, grandson of Darwin's great friend and supporter Thomas Henry Huxley, thought that the white plumage of the male ptarmigan might distract a predator away from the female.
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It is obvious that the reindeer herding is the basis of the Saami culture here and other subsistence activities that are related to the nature, such as picking cloudberries or ptarmigan hunting.
Sapmi~ the communities of Purnumukka, Ochejohka, and Nuorgam climate change case study
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DILLON - Silverthorne and Dillon have joined forces on an eight-unit affordable-housing complex in the Ptarmigan Trail Estates subdivision bordering Silverthorne and Dillon.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories
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Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
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Not even a marmot or a ptarmigan moved to break the bleakness of the pass.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The temp is minus 5 degrees Celsius and the wind is in our face the rest of the day as we ski often where ptarmigans, moose and reindeer make the only other tracks.
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They also support a number of threatened and endangered bird species like the capercaillie, the osprey, and the ptarmigan.
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In winter, the ptarmigan is covered by a pure white mass of feathers which blend seamlessly with snow.
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Then another sleigh load of cariboo, in all twelve Cariboo, two sleighs of hare, grouse and ptarmigan, then a man carrying a dead _carcajou_, then in the distance, the soldier-like phiz of the Nimrod himself, nimbly following on foot the cavalcade.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
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These include the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and the ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus).
Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
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Still following the sure footing of rocky drainages, we flushed ptarmigan from the willows as we went, at one point rousting several hundred of them.
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The park is a significant breeding site for harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus, blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata, common tern Sterna hirundo, and arctic tern S. paridisaea, a nesting site for bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephala, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus and American tree sparrow Spizella arborea, and a stopover for migrating shore birds.
Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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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!
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Representative species include snow, Brant and Canada goose; yellow-billed, Arctic, and red-throated loons; whistling swans; oldsquaw ducks; gyrfalcons; willow and rock ptarmigan; red-necked phalarope; parasitic jaeger; snowy owls; hoary redpoll and snow bunting.
Tundra ecoregion (CEC)
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Representative species include snow, Brant and Canada goose; yellow-billed, Arctic, and red-throated loons; whistling swans; oldsquaw ducks; gyrfalcons; willow and rock ptarmigan; red-necked phalarope; parasitic jaeger; snowy owls; hoary redpoll and snow bunting.
Tundra ecoregion (CEC)
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Willow ptarmigan, rock ptarmigan and spruce grouse are a few of the ground-dwelling birds.
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Scottish Natural Heritage, the government's conservation agency, has pointed out that Scotland's mountain birds, like the dotterel and the ptarmigan, are also vulnerable to climate change.
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Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
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Head eastwards across the grassy plateau to Ben Tirran, keeping an eye out for the birds that inhabit Scotland's high moorlands - curlew, ptarmigan, skylarks singing as they rise and, if you're lucky, the shy dotterel.
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The p, I should add for your guidance, is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan.
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The rotten bark gave way under his feet, and with a despairing yelp he pitched down the rounded crescent, smashed through the leafage and stalks of a small bush, and in the heart of the bush, on the ground, fetched up in the midst of seven ptarmigan chicks.
The Wall of the World
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The hurtling white grouse flushed here and there are the rock ptarmigan; the dark swift sharp-winged raptors are not peregrine falcons but one or more of the three species of marine predators called jaegers ” German for "hunters" ” which after nesting will return to the oceans of the earth to pass the remainder of the year pirating other birds.
Inside the Endangered Arctic Refuge
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No domestic sheep were run on the areas since at least 1900, and grazing by red deer was light, mainly on grass rather than on the heaths eaten by Rock Ptarmigan and Red Grouse.
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They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
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Cairngorm, an ancient home to rare birds like eagles, dotterels and ptarmigan, is a world-class mountain that has rightly attracted a welter of international conservation designations.
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A total of 227 bird species have been recorded (including species characteristic of all boreal forest habitats) which include great grey owl Strix nebulosa and snowy owl Nyctea scandiaca, willow ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus, redpoll Acanthis spp., crossbill Lorix spp. and borealchickadee Parus hudsonicus.
Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada
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It's a stretch to call it a dream, but tops on my Dalton Highway wish list was stalking willow ptarmigan with a bow, out on the open tundra amid the blueberries, bearberries, cranberries, and cottongrass.
How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway
