But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks
of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.
Not exact matches
In the February issue
of BioScience, biologists describe the first -
of - a-kind recording
of caribou and
ptarmigan migrations made with 14 automated cameras positioned in the northern foothills
of the Brooks Range, Alaska.
Other scientists have pointed to coat - color mismatch against snowless ground as a cause for recent range decreases
of hares,
ptarmigan and other species.
The smallest bird in the grouse family, the white - tailed
ptarmigan is also one
of the few animals that lives on alpine mountaintops throughout its entire life.
And since the white - tailed
ptarmigan is an «indicator species» for high - elevation ecosystems — the canary in the alpine — its path toward demise could signal the complete collapse
of these ecosystems in the not - so - distant future.
KEY DOCUMENTS 2012 Decision that federal protection may be warranted 2010 Federal Endangered Species Act listing petition Map
of predicted climate change effects on white - tailed
ptarmigan's range
We offer this willow
ptarmigan female coloring page with several different sentences in addition to our Bird Day collection
of coloring page sentence readers.
Red grouse are British subspecies
of a Holarctic species that we North Americans call a «willow
ptarmigan.»
Ptarmigan Glades (# 67) requires a bit
of skill but with the right conditions these trees will have you grinning.
As you ascend the mountain railway to the
Ptarmigan summit station, more and more
of the park is unveiled, and you can see all the way over the distant peaks.
From the windows in the cafeteria, we can see
ptarmigan, white against the brown
of the tundra.
In the experiment for the second type
of power socket, real time payment was made when a closed network, made up
of «
ptarmigan» nodes and other «Lightning Network specific software (BOLT) was configured on Testnet,» Kurimoto wrote.
«With developing
ptarmigan, we will continue to develop and experiment to seek for what kind
of architecture is the best to apply Lightning Network for IoT.»
Nayuta has developed two different kinds
of power sockets for electric vehicle charging and making Bitcoin payments: one is a power socket, developed in 2015 that has been modified for a zero confirmation payment system, that has a pseudo SPV wallet software on a micro-controller, and the other has a Lightning Network software named «
ptarmigan,» which Nayuta is currently developing.