Northern Birds

Grouse and ptarmigans are evolutionary descendants of an ancestral  population that lived just more than seven million years ago. They live in the northern hemisphere, ptarmigans above the tree lines and grouse in coniferous forests. These birds are primarily vegetarians: grouse eat conifer needles and grouse feed on the grasses and bushes that grow on the treeless expanses at high latitudes and high elevations.

These photos were taken in northeastern British Columbia, near Fort St. John, on a birding trip.

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