text: A ptarmigan is a small bird that belongs to the grouse family.\n\nConservation status: Lower risk (lc) \n\n \nScientific classification \nKingdom: Animalia\n \nPhylum: Chordata\n \nClass: Aves\n \nOrder: Galliformes\n \nFamily: Tetraonidae\n \nGenus: Lagopus\n \nSpecies: L. muta\n \n \nBinomial name \nLagopus muta\n(Montin, 1781)