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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

lagopode
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The lagopode or lagopodo is another way to call the partridge nival. Its scientific name is Lagopus muta and belongs to the family Phasianidae . It is very common in northern Europe and in all cold areas.

  



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John Rene Plaut

LAGOPODE is a gallinaceae that lives in the Arctic regions, Greenland, Scotland and the Alps. It is similar to a plump pigeon with much larger and rounder eyes. A species is white and is called precisely white lagopode. There are other specks very pigeon style, such as the Alps (Alpenschneehuhn, in German, snow hen from the Alps). Other species have a huge hen-like, black collar, white body and a red area around the eyes.

  










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