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Female Ptarmigan in winter plumage, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Ptarmigan in Winter
Female Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage, Glenshee, camouflaged when against the snow, but standing out against a non-snowy background.
25 February 2007
Ptarmigan pair in winter plumage, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Ptarmigan in Winter
Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) pair in winter plumage, Glenshee. The female is on the left and the male on the right. He has a red wattle over his eye, while she doesn't. In a mild winter, they still turn white, and stand out against a rocky background instead of the white plumage being good camouflage. This will probably be an increasing problem with global warming.
25 February 2007
Ptarmigan in winter plumage, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Ptarmigan in Winter
Male Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in mostly winter plumage, just beginning to develop some darker feathers to get ready for the snow melt in the summer. You can tell he is a male from the obvious red wattle above his eye. In the female this is either absent or much less obvious.
25 February 2007
Rock Rose, Devil's Elbow
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CEP - Perthshire
Rock rose (Helianthemum nummularium), Devil's Elbow, Glenshee, Perthshire, scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1954. Found on chalk and limestone grasslands in summer but is found on increasingly acid soil further north in its range.
