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.
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This one caught my attention.
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.