What is "ptarmigans"

Usage examples of "ptarmigans".

I scouted alone all day and in my wanderings came upon the first ptarmigans of the trip and shot one of them with my rifle.

Some geese and ptarmigans were killed and a good many of both kinds of birds were seen, as well as some ducks.

Now, two years later, I realized that from Windbound Lake we could have reached Michikamau in five or six days at the very outside, and less than two weeks, allowing for delays through bad weather and our weakened condition, would have brought us to the George River, where, at that time of the year, ducks and ptarmigans are always plentiful.

Bursts of willow ptarmigans shot up around us from the berry thickets like brown rockets.

There were lemmings that burrowed beneath the snow, ptarmigans that dove into drifts for insulation, even plants that managed to flourish in pockets of warm air beneath the ice.

And in the winters the snow-clearing of the mammoths exposed grass for hares and willow buds for ptarmigans, and the wells they dug were used by wolves and foxes and others, and even now the insects stirred up by the mammoths' passage served as food for the birds.

A bevy of white-gowned girls rose like a covey of ptarmigans, and whirled flags of maroon and gray.