Name:Lagopus leucurus
Alias:Lagopus leucurus,White-tailed Ptarmigan
Outline:Landfowl
Family:Chickeniformes G.family Pt.Genus
length:About 34 cm
Weight:About 1.3kg
Life:No textual research information is available
IUCN:LC
The White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) has five subspecies.
The white-tailed thunderbird has a stout, short bill, digs under the snow and eats almost exclusively plant food. It is a typical herbivorous bird and rarely eats insects. The plants eaten vary from season to season, with buds and branches eaten in winter and early spring, green leaves eaten in summer, and grass seeds and berries eaten in late summer and autumn. The plants are mainly birch, poplar and willow. Thunderbirds rely on bacterial assisted digestion to extract essential nutrients from their cecum. During the summer, they eat grit to help digest plant material.
White-tailed thunderbirds estrus from April to May and breed from May to July. When in heat, the posture is very like a domestic chicken, the tail is raised and spread, fanning the wings, and the song is like a domestic chicken, mostly in the morning and evening, when seeking a mate, the male birds often fight to protect their nest area or for the female bird, pecking each other's neck and head. Before pairing, the male will show off in his occupied territory and make mating calls to attract the female to mate. The nest is placed in the grass on the ground, for a simple oval small hole, with a small amount of dead branches, grass leaves, leaves, residual feathers and so on. Broods of 2-8 eggs are pear-shaped, weigh 3 grams, and are 45×32 mm in size. Eggs pale yellow, with varying sizes of light cinnamon and brown spots. Incubation period is 23 days.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2013 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Low Risk (LC).
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