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Lagopus lagopus (Willow Ptarmigan; Willow Grouse)

Synonyms: Lagopus medius; Tetrao lagopus (homotypic)
Language: French

Infraspecies

Lagopus lagopus alascensis (Willow Ptarmigan) (Attributes)
Lagopus lagopus alba (Willow Ptarmigan) (Attributes)
Lagopus lagopus alexandrae
Lagopus lagopus alleni
Lagopus lagopus birulai
Lagopus lagopus brevirostris
Lagopus lagopus kamtschatkensis
Lagopus lagopus koreni
Lagopus lagopus kozlowae
Lagopus lagopus lagopus (Willow ptarmigan)
Lagopus lagopus leucoptera
Lagopus lagopus maior
Lagopus lagopus muriei
Lagopus lagopus okadai
Lagopus lagopus pyrenaicus
Lagopus lagopus rossica
Lagopus lagopus scotica (Red Grouse)
Lagopus lagopus sserebrowskii
Lagopus lagopus ungavus
Lagopus lagopus variegata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.42221
EDGE Score: 1.85976
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.393 lbs (632 g)
Birth Weight [3]  15 grams
Female Weight [6]  1.279 lbs (580 g)
Male Weight [6]  1.587 lbs (720 g)
Weight Dimorphism [6]  24.1 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra
Diet [4]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Plants [4]  90 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [7]  9
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  12 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  35,000,000
Incubation [3]  21 days
Mating Display [8]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  9 years
Snout to Vent Length [5]  16 inches (40 cm)
Wing Span [9]  24 inches (.6 m)
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year

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Citations

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♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 9British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 10Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12Golden Eagles on the Swedish mountain tundra – diet and breeding success in relation to prey fluctuations, Jesper Nyström, Johan Ekenstedt, Anders Angerbjörn, Linda Thulin, Peter Hellström & Love Dalén, Ornis Fennica 83:145–152. 2006
♦ 13POTAPOV, E. 2011. Gyrfalcon diet: Spatial and temporal variation In R. T. Watson, T. J. Cade, M. Fuller, G. Hunt, and E. Potapov (Eds.). Gyrfalcons and Ptarmigan in a Changing World. The Peregrine Fund, Boise, Idaho, USA
♦ 14Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 15International Flea Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0