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Title: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 02, 2010, 09:05:19 PM
Vail Daily column: Where are the ptarmigan?
If you see a ptarmigan, let me know
Kim Langmaid
Curious Nature
Vail, CO Colorado

A couple of weeks ago, I came home to a distressed message on my answering machine. The voice on the other end exclaimed, “Kim! Where are the white-tailed ptarmigan?!” The distraught messenger is a friend of mine, someone who I consider one of the most knowledgeable and active birders in the Eagle Valley area. She went on to say that during her alpine hikes this summer she's seen plenty of pika but she hasn't seen a single ptarmigan and she wanted me to join her on a mission to find some.

In case you are wondering, a ptarmigan is a bird. There are three species of ptarmigan that live in North America, and the white-tailed ptarmigan is the only one that lives in Colorado. The other two species, the willow ptarmigan and the rock ptarmigan, live on the tundra of Alaska and Canada. Ptarmigan are closely related to grouse but they are smaller and they solely inhabit alpine and arctic regions.

Vail Daily-Where are the ptarmigan? (http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20100829/NEWS/100829794/1078&ParentProfile=1062)

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This one caught my attention.
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She went on to say that during her alpine hikes this summer she's seen plenty of pika but she hasn't seen a single ptarmigan and she wanted me to join her on a mission to find some.

She did not see any single ptarmigans, but plenty of pikas, which are related to rabbits. This is more proof that rabbits, alongside with gyrfalcons, squirrels, seagulls, coyotes, foxes, ravens, and weasels are persecuting and waging war against ptarmigans. All of them are inferior and worthy of extermination the slimy sodomite vermins that they are.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Crazy Horse on September 03, 2010, 06:09:56 AM
She did not see any single ptarmigans, but plenty of pikas, which are related to rabbits. This is more proof that rabbits, alongside with gyrfalcons, squirrels, seagulls, coyotes, foxes, ravens, and weasels are persecuting and waging war against ptarmigans. All of them are inferior and worthy of extermination the slimy sodomite vermins that they are.

Take no prisoners, the rabbits are now implementing a scorched earth  strategy  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: PatriotGame on September 03, 2010, 07:29:48 AM
Last Ptarmigan I seen were in my cast iron skillet with a white wine splash.
Sorry...

(running...ducking...hoping for a bunny cover of my ass...)
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: IassaFTots on September 03, 2010, 07:34:41 AM
Last Ptarmigan I seen were in my cast iron skillet with a white wine splash.
Sorry...

(running...ducking...hoping for a bunny cover of my ass...)


Dude...........feeling awful brave today, eh????????   :popcorn:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: PatriotGame on September 03, 2010, 07:37:29 AM

Dude...........feeling awful brave today, eh????????   :popcorn:
Yea sweetheart...waiting for the rapture... :fuelfire: :-) :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: LC EFA on September 03, 2010, 07:42:38 AM
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Where are the ptarmigan?

Ground up and stuffed inside the rabbit- which is roasting in the oven.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: PatriotGame on September 03, 2010, 07:59:00 AM
Ground up and stuffed inside the rabbit- which is roasting in the oven.

OMG!!!

 Aaaaaaaand..... we're off.....

Even one of my cats ran into the bedroom and dived under the bed...I'm following him...
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: IassaFTots on September 03, 2010, 08:50:15 AM
OMG!!!

 Aaaaaaaand..... we're off.....

Even one of my cats ran into the bedroom and dived under the bed...I'm following him...


:panic:

:panic:

:ashamed:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Odin's Hand on September 03, 2010, 08:53:38 AM
(http://navlog.org/thorazine.jpg)
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: AllosaursRus on September 03, 2010, 12:50:35 PM
Yea sweetheart...waiting for the rapture... :fuelfire: :-) :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

Haven't ya heard? Our girls like to see our scars! Post 'em if ya got 'em! lol!

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Ptarmigan are closely related to grouse but they are smaller and they solely inhabit alpine and arctic regions

Hmmmmmmm........so they're not big enough to eat, huh? So my Blue Grouse can kick your ass, huh? Blue Grouse are more the size of chickens and a great eat! At least it don't take 3 of 'em to make a meal!

(http://a.imageshack.us/img203/7683/bligar.gif)
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on September 03, 2010, 05:48:33 PM
They were delicious.  Don't worry, pikas are next.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: formerlurker on September 03, 2010, 06:20:55 PM
Ground up and stuffed inside the rabbit- which is roasting in the oven.



 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 03, 2010, 08:07:49 PM
Take no prisoners, the rabbits are now implementing a scorched earth  strategy  :evillaugh:

God is going to unleash His angry and almighty wrath on rabbits and enemies of ptarmigans. Their Days are coming for the Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War. :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 03, 2010, 08:08:14 PM
Last Ptarmigan I seen were in my cast iron skillet with a white wine splash.
Sorry...

(running...ducking...hoping for a bunny cover of my ass...)

You got cadmium poisoning.  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 03, 2010, 08:10:23 PM
(http://navlog.org/thorazine.jpg)

Stigmatizing the mentally ill are we? I am not mentally ill. I am righting a wrong inflicted on ptarmigans by rabbits. Rabbits will doom humankind and humans do nothing about it. They are being brainwashed by their
"cuteness". Those bent mother****ing sodomite freaks of nature.

BUNNIES HATE GOD!!!!!!!
GOD HATES BUNNIES!!!!!
BUNNIES ARE NATURE'S FREAKS!!!!!!!!!!
BUNNIES ARE BEASTS!!!!!!!!!
BUGS BUNNY IS A SODOMITE VERMIN!!!!!!!!!!
VERMINISTIC WANKEROUS BUNNIES ROT IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL BUNNIES MUST DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on September 03, 2010, 09:50:38 PM
Well OK then.

 :-)
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: AllosaursRus on September 04, 2010, 02:43:51 AM
Well OK then.

 :-)

heh! he don't need thorazine, I'm no doctor but I am an expert in zombie meds! I think morphine would be the order of the day!
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 04, 2010, 07:35:48 AM
heh! he don't need thorazine, I'm no doctor but I am an expert in zombie meds! I think morphine would be the order of the day!

Or #7 1/2 birdshot . . .
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: AllosaursRus on September 04, 2010, 12:01:50 PM
Or #7 1/2 birdshot . . .

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Now THAT was funny, I don't care who ya are!!!

Git 'er Done!
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Godot showed up on September 04, 2010, 01:24:06 PM

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lagopus_muta.html



Lagopus muta (rock ptarmigan)


"The name Lagopus means "foot of a rabbit" refering to the ptarmigan's feathered feet, which resemble the furry feet of a rabbit."



(http://www.eskimo.com/~turnip/alaska/pix/0405_ptarmigan.jpg)



(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2383772413_199816ee30.jpg?v=0)





What does it all mean? I don't know. But can't we all just get along?










Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 04, 2010, 01:36:32 PM
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lagopus_muta.html



Lagopus muta (rock ptarmigan)


"The name Lagopus means "foot of a rabbit" refering to the ptarmigan's feathered feet, which resemble the furry feet of a rabbit."



(http://www.eskimo.com/~turnip/alaska/pix/0405_ptarmigan.jpg)



(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2383772413_199816ee30.jpg?v=0)





What does it all mean? I don't know. But can't we all just get along?











How cute the 2nd photo. Oh the first one is cute too! :uhsure: :popcorn:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 04, 2010, 05:22:52 PM
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lagopus_muta.html



Lagopus muta (rock ptarmigan)


"The name Lagopus means "foot of a rabbit" refering to the ptarmigan's feathered feet, which resemble the furry feet of a rabbit."



(http://www.eskimo.com/~turnip/alaska/pix/0405_ptarmigan.jpg)



(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2383772413_199816ee30.jpg?v=0)





What does it all mean? I don't know. But can't we all just get along?












Ptarmigan foot does not look like rabbit foot. And no, I am not a self hater just because my genus is Lagopus. That filthy wankerous rabbit can rot in Hell.  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: dutch508 on September 04, 2010, 05:29:18 PM
Ptarmigan foot does not look like rabbit foot. And no, I am not a self hater just because my genus is Lagopus. That filthy wankerous rabbit can rot in Hell.  :fuelfire:

Your mother was raped by Bunnies, wasn't she.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 04, 2010, 05:42:42 PM
Your mother was raped by Bunnies, wasn't she.
Or was she slapped around by one?
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: PatriotGame on September 04, 2010, 10:00:45 PM
You got cadmium poisoning.  :evillaugh:
Oh God I love ya maaaan!!!

Oh and yea, apparently I *DO* have some type of poisoning...it's what I do....


...guy's gotta have a job...
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: PatriotGame on September 04, 2010, 10:04:59 PM
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lagopus_muta.html



Lagopus muta (rock ptarmigan)


"The name Lagopus means "foot of a rabbit" refering to the ptarmigan's feathered feet, which resemble the furry feet of a rabbit."



(http://www.eskimo.com/~turnip/alaska/pix/0405_ptarmigan.jpg)



(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2383772413_199816ee30.jpg?v=0)





What does it all mean? I don't know. But can't we all just get along?












Oh shit!!!

You have no idea what you have just potentially unleashed!

Thank God for alcohol - just so I can get through this...
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: thundley4 on September 04, 2010, 10:15:00 PM
Lagopus or lagomorph?    :rotf:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 12:14:51 PM
Your mother was raped by Bunnies, wasn't she.

No, bunnies kill ptarmigans. Those filthy beasts.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 12:15:23 PM
Oh shit!!!

You have no idea what you have just potentially unleashed!

Thank God for alcohol - just so I can get through this...

An attempt to look for skeletons in the closet that I am some self-hater. Sorry, I am no self-hater.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 12:32:19 PM
Lagopus or lagomorph?    :rotf:

Lagopus=Cute
Lagomorph=Rot In Hell.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Godot showed up on September 05, 2010, 01:30:43 PM
I...uh...just thought it was kind of interesting when I stumbled across it, it being the unexpected confluence of taxonomic classification....



But obviously I was completely wrong, 100% wrong, my word yes, how wrong I was, you just don't get wronger than I was...so, has anyone seen Mr. SB about?, just asking....*
















*RUN AWAAAAAAAAY.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 05, 2010, 02:43:59 PM
Lagopus, lagomorph . . . what's the difference?

:bolt:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: formerlurker on September 05, 2010, 04:39:09 PM
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lagopus_muta.html



Lagopus muta (rock ptarmigan)


"The name Lagopus means "foot of a rabbit" refering to the ptarmigan's feathered feet, which resemble the furry feet of a rabbit."



(http://www.eskimo.com/~turnip/alaska/pix/0405_ptarmigan.jpg)



(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2383772413_199816ee30.jpg?v=0)





What does it all mean? I don't know. But can't we all just get along?













 :rotf:

Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 04:39:22 PM
No, bunnies kill ptarmigans. Those filthy beasts.
What about  Bugs Bunny? He is good, NO? :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: thundley4 on September 05, 2010, 04:41:11 PM
What about  Bugs Bunny? He is good, NO? :cheersmate:

The Easter Bunny is , too.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: formerlurker on September 05, 2010, 04:47:35 PM
The rabbit is not the most dangerous killer of the ptarmigan -- everything you have read to date has all been a sham, a ruse, a deflection.  

The true enemy of the ptarmigan and the rabbit is the stoat:  

(http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/images/stoat.jpg)

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1971.tb01309.x/asset/j.1469-7998.1971.tb01309.x_p1.png?v=1&s=8037c0dc8f073947216a99c4bb097bd014977cd0)


Cute? yes.  Lethal?  absolutely.

The E-V-I-L stoat lurks among us........be afraid my friends........ be very afraid.




Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 04:48:29 PM
The Easter Bunny is , too.
I guess the Energizer Bunny?  And yes I know you did his sister and she kept going and going! 
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 04:52:08 PM
The rabbit is not the most dangerous killer of the ptarmigan -- everything you have read to date has all been a sham, a ruse, a deflection.   

The true enemy of the ptarmigan and the rabbit is the sloat: 

(http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/images/stoat.jpg)

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1971.tb01309.x/asset/j.1469-7998.1971.tb01309.x_p1.png?v=1&s=8037c0dc8f073947216a99c4bb097bd014977cd0)


Cute? yes.  Lethal?  absolutely.

The E-V-I-L sloat lurks among us........be afraid my friends........ be very afraid.
That looks like the Pine Martins we have around here. Suspiciously we have no rabbits OR ptarmigan's  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 04:57:55 PM
The rabbit is not the most dangerous killer of the ptarmigan -- everything you have read to date has all been a sham, a ruse, a deflection.   

The true enemy of the ptarmigan and the rabbit is the stoat: 

(http://www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/images/stoat.jpg)

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1971.tb01309.x/asset/j.1469-7998.1971.tb01309.x_p1.png?v=1&s=8037c0dc8f073947216a99c4bb097bd014977cd0)


Cute? yes.  Lethal?  absolutely.

The E-V-I-L stoat lurks among us........be afraid my friends........ be very afraid.






Stoats should be exterminated along side with rabbits, coyotes, foxes, and gyrfalcons.  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: thundley4 on September 05, 2010, 05:00:43 PM
It seems that if one member of the avian family is siding with the bunnies, then maybe the ptarmigans did something to piss them off.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: LC EFA on September 05, 2010, 05:08:56 PM
Lagopus, lagomorph . . . what's the difference?

:bolt:

Taste...
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 05:29:02 PM
Taste...
:rimshot:
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 07:07:06 PM
It seems that if one member of the avian family is siding with the bunnies, then maybe the ptarmigans did something to piss them off.

Gyrfalcons eat ptarmigans and they too are among to be slated for extermination alongside with rabbits and stoats.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 07:07:39 PM
What about  Bugs Bunny? He is good, NO? :cheersmate:

Bugs Bunny is a filthy soul damning beast.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 07:08:11 PM
The Easter Bunny is , too.

The Easter Bunny killed Jesus for trying to expose the bunnies.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 07:08:57 PM
Lagopus, lagomorph . . . what's the difference?

:bolt:

Lagopus=Cute and cuddly
Lagomorph=Worthy of extermination alongside with rabbits, stoats, gyrfalcons, squirrels, and seagulls.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 05, 2010, 07:15:29 PM
Wonder why Mr. Snuggle Bunny has not replied here? You're time is here to reply and duke it out with me.
Title: Re: Where are the ptarmigan?
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 07:39:35 PM
Wonder why Mr. Snuggle Bunny has not replied here? You're time is here to reply and duke it out with me.
Oh no'ssssss maybe a sloat got him?  :popcorn: