The Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan is specialized to dwell in high alpine environments—that is to say, it thrives in cold weather. These rotund birds, which each weigh about a pound, use ...

The Ptarmigan lift offering access to the top of the west side of the ski area is scheduled to open Wednesday, according to ...

Ptarmigan are extremely hard to see in our white winters. I like to imagine seeing them in the snow living happily with fewer people and other mammals wandering around in their Alpine habitat.

If you look hard enough, you just might see them; a sight to see for a ski area in Colorado. Two porcupines have taken up residence in the trees off the Ptarmigan Lift at Loveland Ski Area, but ...

On his eleventh ptarmigan quest, 20 years ago, he finally saw one. “I have found them a number of times over the years, but that’s out of a great number more unsuccessful attempts!” he said.

The Scottish Highlands — especially the Cairngorms National Park and Spey Valley — has a reputation as one of the best places to go birdwatching in the UK.

But when the snow comes, the whole ptarmigan turns the color of its tail, ... when high above treeline you might hear the white-tailed ptarmigan. About Colorado Postcards.

The Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan is a year-round resident of alpine zones above the treeline, stretching from southern British Columbia to Mount Adams in southwest Washington. In winter, the ...

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 ...

Meet the Rare, ‘Beautiful’ Birds That Thrive in Snow and Are at Risk Because of Climate Change The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan as threatened ...

The Ptarmigan lift offering access to the top of the west side of the ski area is scheduled to open Wednesday, according to the post.The opening of the lift will also be when the ski area extends ...