One nice day in September, I walked with a few friends in a subalpine meadow of no-longer-blooming wildflowers with small shrub thickets scattered ...

The willow ptarmigan is the official state bird of Alaska. Syracuse, N.Y. -- I'm a novice birder, but I can appreciate the enthusiasm and excitement of those who spot a bird that has rarely, if ...

A male willow ptarmigan struts his stuff during breeding season. (Photo by Steve Meyer) A male willow ptarmigan nestled into snow at the base of willow shrub, his eyes shut and his red eye comb ...

I was on the North Slope looking for phantom caribou when Hank Nuwer, the managing editor, emailed me with positive feedback on my first column, thank you. Yes, fortunately, or ...

A "bastard of a storm" leads one Cordovan to muse on the graceful ptarmigan, Alaska's professional "hunkerer" bird, which seems to materialize out of nowhere thanks to its incredible camouflage.

As a seasonally camouflaged species, the rock ptarmigan has brown plumage in the summer and white plumage in the winter to blend in with its surroundings. Fast Facts Common name: Rock ptarmigan ...

Above eleven thousand feet in a Colorado winter, the only bird you’re likely to see – if you see it at all – is the White-tailed Ptarmigan.

Colorado and Summit County’s High Country provide a year-round home to a seldom-seen bird more commonly found in the alpine tundra of Alaska and northwest Canada, the white-tailed ptarmigan.

Ptarmigan in Colorado have varied reproduction, not likely linked to warming trends Date: July 15, 2016 Source: Colorado State University Summary: Ptarmigan, which live in cold ecosystems, are not ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

Last year in July, Kathy and I were trudging on tundra and stumbling over granite rocks 12,000 feet above sea level in Rocky Mountain National Park. We were gasping for breath in oxygen-thin air ...

Colorado and Eagle County’s High Country provides a year-round home to a seldom-seen bird more commonly found in the alpine tundra of Alaska and northwest Canada — the white-tailed ptarmigan. Related ...