LE LAGOPEDE

The alpine grouse (Lagopus transferred) is sometimes named also partridge of snows. This bird - in language same - gave its name to the Swedish city of Kiruna

As we saw higher, it would rather have its place in the frozen steppes of the Far North. It one is accustomed of windy spaces. This birds lives in manner very exposed, always with overdraft. What explains the adaptation of its plumage to the camouflage.

It flies away only at the last time very often preferring to be flattened on the ground to camouflage itself. In these cases there it is sometimes easy to observe it if you located it.

It has a plumage adapted to the cold, like the grouse, with a density more provided than the birds of the plains and feathers on the legs. Its tolerance with the cold is surprising. it does not fear the food shortage. It is primarily herbivorous In summer no problem (it appreciates in particular the sheets of dwarf willows) but in winter it sometimes happens to him to dig snow around the trees to find grass essential (even yellowed), the ship's boys, the lichens.