Rock Ptarmigan
Lagopus muta

f7.1 @ 1/640s, ISO:2000, Nikon D3S w 500mm

\"Rock Ptarmigan,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.The Rock Ptarmigan is a sedentary species which breeds across arctic and subarctic Eurasia and North America (including Greenland) on rocky mountainsides and tundra. It is widespread in the Arctic Cordillera and is found in isolated populations in the mountains of Scotland, the Pyrenees, the Alps, Bulgaria, the Urals, the Pamir Mountains, the Altay Mountains, and Japan. Because of the remote habitat in which it lives, it has only a few predators—such as Golden Eagles—and it can be surprisingly approachable.

Lake Myvatn, Iceland

05/27/2013