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Tetraonidae willow ptarmigan Willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus). white-tailed ptarmigan with summer plumage white-tailed ptarmigan with winter plumage
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ptarmigan: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: RSPB - Ptarmigan. Jun 10, 2020
Add new Web site: RSPB - Ptarmigan. Nov 28, 2016
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Ptarmigan. Nov 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Wildscreen Arkive - Ptarmigan. Nov 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Easy Science For Kids - Ptarmigans. Nov 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Arctic Studies Center - Ptarmigan. Nov 28, 2016
Added an image of a willow ptarmigan. Jan 21, 2016
Add new Web site: Animal Planet - Ptarmigan. Dec 19, 2013
Photographs showing the summer and winter plumage of ptarmigans (Lagopus) added. Apr 13, 2010
Media added. Aug 07, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Ptarmigan. May 21, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 23, 1999
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