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Description: | The Ptarmigan is similar to a grouse and lives throughout the Arctic region - Iceland, Greenland and much of Scandinavia. In Britain the Ptarmigan breeds at high altitudes in the mountains of northern and western Scotland. It is well adapted to the cold mountain climate. It's feet and legs are covered with a thick layer of feathers to protect them from the cold, and in winter it's feathers become completely white so that it blends into the snow covered landscape. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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