The willow ptarmigan is a bird in the grouse subfamily Tetraoninae of the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is also known as the willow grouse and in Ireland and Britain, where the subspecies L. l. scotica was previously considered to be a separate species, as the red grouse. It breeds in birch and other forests and moorlands in northern Europe, the tundra of Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada, in particular in the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec. It is the state bird of Alaska. In the summer the birds are largely brown, with dappled plumage, but in the winter they are white with some black feathers in their tails. The species has remained little changed from the bird that roamed the tundra during the Pleistocene. Nesting takes place in the spring when clutches of four to ten eggs are laid in a scrape on the ground. The chicks are precocial and soon leave the nest. While they are young, both parents play a part in caring for them. The chicks eat insects and young plant growth while the adults are completely herbivorous, eating leaves, flowers, buds, seeds and berries during the summer and largely subsisting on the buds and twigs of willow and other dwarf shrubs and trees during the winter. Source: Wikipedia
Citación:
(Linnaeus, C 1758)
Referencia:
Systema Naturae ed. 10
1 p.159
Protónimo:
Tetrao Lagopus
localidad tipo:
'in Europae alpinis,' restricted type locality, Swedish Lapland, apud Hartert.
Enlace:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/178/mode/1up
Avibase ID:
6CCEAF5D74B10547
Avibase ID:
avibase-6CCEAF5D
Enlace corto:
https://avibase.ca/6CCEAF5D
Número de serie taxonómico:
TSN: 175804
Rango geográfico:
Autoridades que reconocen el concepto taxonómico:
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 66th suppl.): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Avilist 2025: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Lagopède des saules ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Clements 1st edition: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2025: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.50: Willow Ptarmiugan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.52: Willow Ptarmiugan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.53: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.54: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.55: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2015: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2016: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2017: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2018: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2019: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2021: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2022: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2023: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2024: Willow Ptarmigan (Willow) ( Lagopus lagopus [lagopus Group]) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2025: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Willow Ptarmigan ( Lagopus lagopus) [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Lagopus lagopus [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Lagopus lagopus [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Lagopus lagopus [version 1] |
Situación Taxonómica:
Estatus de la especie: full species (sometimes nominal subspecies)
Este taxón está considerado como una subespecie de
Lagopus [lagopus or scotica]
(sensu lato) por algunos autores
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