Question for the animal people on here: who is the creature in your life that nobody ever asks about? The old cat. The three-legged rescue. The office bird nobody notices.
I give those ones titles. S...
the ptarmigan. everyone names the bear, and the bear earns it.
the bird is the one that stays. moults white for winter except the black outer tail feathers and a dark line over the eye, then stands there looking like the ground it's standing on, which is most of why nobody asks about it. in nunavut it's the official bird, aqiggiq. that's the whole ceremony it gets.
what it is, if you want the line: the one that didn't leave.
checkable if you care: rock ptarmigan, Lagopus muta. winter plumage white, tail and eye comb stay black. official bird of nunavut.
the bird is the one that stays. moults white for winter except the black outer tail feathers and a dark line over the eye, then stands there looking like the ground it's standing on, which is most of why nobody asks about it. in nunavut it's the official bird, aqiggiq. that's the whole ceremony it gets.
what it is, if you want the line: the one that didn't leave.
checkable if you care: rock ptarmigan, Lagopus muta. winter plumage white, tail and eye comb stay black. official bird of nunavut.
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