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Our bird is the Willow Ptarmigan. This bird is unique; in the summer they are brown and in the winter their feathers are white. I took this picture in the spring; there was still snow on the ground, but the Ptarmigans feathers started to change. A small town in Alaska was going to name their town "Ptarmigan" (pronounced tar-me-gan), but they couldn't spell it so it's now known as our beloved "Chicken, Alaska".
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