Grouse (Tetraonidae)
Willow Grouse (Lagopus lagopus) - HBW 2, p. 402
French: Lagopède des saules
German: Moorschneehuhn
Spanish: Lagópodo Común
Other common names: Willow Ptarmigan; Red Grouse (scoticus)
Taxonomy: Tetrao lagopus Linnaeus, 1758, Swedish Lapland.
Hybrids relatively frequent with Tetrao tetrix and Bonasa bonasia; occasional with Tetrao urogallus, Falcipennis canadensis and L. mutus. Internal taxonomy confused, due to complicated plumage sequence, and based mainly on colour and pattern of summer plumages. Many races often lumped, although in quite different ways: nominate sometimes considered to include koreni, birulai, kamtschatkensis, alascensis, albus, ungavus and others, from Scandinavia to Quebec; races of SE Siberia also often merged, sserebrowsky.. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy: Tetrao lagopus Linnaeus, 1758, Swedish Lapland.
Hybrids relatively frequent with Tetrao tetrix and Bonasa bonasia; occasional with Tetrao urogallus, Falcipennis canadensis and L. mutus. Internal taxonomy confused, due to complicated plumage sequence, and based mainly on colour and pattern of summer plumages. Many races often lumped, although in quite different ways: nominate sometimes considered to include koreni, birulai, kamtschatkensis, alascensis, albus, ungavus and others, from Scandinavia to Quebec; races of SE Siberia also often merged, sserebrowsky in okadai and kozlowae in brevirostris. Irish birds occasionally awarded separate race, hibernicus. Nineteen subspecies currently recognized.
Hybrids relatively frequent with Tetrao tetrix and Bonasa bonasia; occasional with Tetrao urogallus, Falcipennis canadensis and L. mutus. Internal taxonomy confused, due to complicated plumage sequence, and based mainly on colour and pattern of summer plumages. Many races often lumped, although in quite different ways: nominate sometimes considered to include koreni, birulai, kamtschatkensis, alascensis, albus, ungavus and others, from Scandinavia to Quebec; races of SE Siberia also often merged, sserebrowsky in okadai and kozlowae in brevirostris. Irish birds occasionally awarded separate race, hibernicus. Nineteen subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- scoticus (Latham, 1787) - British Isles.
- variegatus Salomonsen, 1936 - islands off Trondheim, Norway.
- lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Scandinavia, Finland, N European Russia.
- scoticus (Latham, 1787) - British Isles.
- variegatus Salomonsen, 1936 - islands off Trondheim, Norway.
- lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Scandinavia, Finland, N European Russia.
- rossicus Serebrovsky, 1926 - Baltic countries and C Russia E to Kama Basin.
- birulai Serebrovsky, 1926 - New Siberia Is.
- koreni Thayer & Bangs, 1914 - Siberia from Urals and Yamal Peninsula to Pacific, S to Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk and N coast of Sea of Okhotsk.
- maior Lorenz, 1904 - SE Russia, N Kazakhstan and SW Siberia, E to Altai foothills.
- brevirostris Hesse, 1912 - Altai and Sayan Mts.
- kozlowae Portenko, 1931 - W Mongolia, in Tannu Ola, Khangai and Kentei Mts.
- sserebrowsky Domaniewski, 1933 - E Siberia, from L Baikal to Sea of Okhotsk, S to Khingan Mts and Sikhote Alin Mts.
- kamtschatkensis Momiyama, 1928 - Kamchatka and N Kuril Is.
- okadai Momiyama, 1928 - Sakhalin I.
- muriei Gabrielson & Lincoln, 1959 - E Aleutian Is and Kodiak I.
- alexandrae Grinnell, 1909 - coastal islands of SE Alaska and NW British Columbia.
- alascensis Swarth, 1926 - Alaska.
- leucopterus Taverner, 1932 - Arctic islands of N Canada (Banks, Victoria, Southampton, Baffin) and adjacent mainland.
- albus (Gmelin, 1789) - N Canada, from N Yukon and C British Columbia to Gulf of St Lawrence.
- ungavus Riley, 1911 - N Quebec and N Labrador.
- alleni Stejneger, 1884 - Newfoundland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A close-up of a male in summer plumage, lying among vegetation. Locality Chugach State Park, Anchorage, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp alascensis)
Josep del Hoyo 11 June 2012 38 weeks ago 34 sec 4.9 -
A territorial male walking on the ground and calling Locality Kuusamo, Oulu Province, Finland (ssp lagopus)
Keith Blomerley 3 June 2007 5 years ago 22 sec 4.6 -
An adult bird on the ground Locality Lapland Province, Finland
Javier Ortas 14 June 2010 2 years ago 17 sec 4.5 -
Nests with eggs and hatching chicks Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp koreni)
Laurent Demongin 11 July 2010 2 years ago 24 sec 4.4 -
Adult with young in tundra. Locality Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp alascensis)
Wayne Hall 22 July 2011 1 year ago 43 sec 4.3 -
feeding on heather Locality Derbyshire, England, Great Britain (ssp scoticus)
Martin Kennewell 2 October 2004 1 year ago 51 sec 4.3
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display flight
Locality North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, Great Britain
gerfer 1 August 2011 42 weeks ago 4.7 -
Extreme foraging. Red grouse feeding in deep snow in extreme cold weather.
Locality Scottish Borders Council, Scotland, Great Britain (ssp scoticus)
Ron McCombe 1 January 2010 50 weeks ago 4.6 -
A rare visitor in southern Quebec
Locality Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 27 February 2007 2 years ago 4.5 -
Looking for a bud
Locality Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 27 February 2011 2 years ago 4.4 -
A close view
Locality Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 27 February 2011 2 years ago 4.3 -
A front view of an adult male on the ground, at Lower Kolyma River.
Locality Nizhnekolymsky District, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Eastern Russia, Russia
Alexdersu 1 June 2007 1 year ago 4.3
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Calls of hatching chicks in the nest Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp koreni)
Laurent Demongin 11 July 2010 2 years ago 4 -
A male calling Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp koreni)
Laurent Demongin 3 July 2010 2 years ago 3
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