SOUTHERLY MOVEMENTS OF WILLOW PTARMIGAN DURING WINTER IN AND NEAR THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES Peter Taylor the following sections. a big push of flocks moving through. P.O. Box 597 To prepare this article, I consulted Locally they are scarce right now Pinawa, MB R0E 1L0 many books, reports and journal except for pockets in which they
[email protected] articles, newspaper articles (especially are wintering. About a month ago the erstwhile Chickadee Notes [early January] there were numerous This review was inspired by a column in the Winnipeg Free Press, sightings of flocks on Highway 60 cluster of three records of Willow successively edited by Alexander and in the bog area [northwest of Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus; Lawrence, Harold Mossop, and David Lake Winnipegosis]. I expect they are hereafter, WIPT) in southeastern Hatch), individual correspondents wintering on Lake Winnipegosis or in Manitoba in December 2017. On cited in the acknowledgements, the bog area. Some years they shift 11 December, Richard Farquhar and open-access online resources east from this area, and I expect the photographed two WIPT alongside (especially VertNet, eBird, GBIF, same has happened [this year] as in Manitoba Provincial Road 315 in iNaturalist, the Searchable early December there were numerous a forested area near Poplar Bay at Ornithological Research Archive sightings on Highway 6 between the eastern end of Lac du Bonnet (SORA), and several individual online William Lake and Ponton. Historically [lake] (50.37°N, 95.77°W). On 27 museum databases). This resulted they are said to have wintered quite December, while scouting for the in more records, anecdotes, and far south on Lake Winnipegosis.