Colorado white-tailed ptarmigan range map
Where white-tailed ptarmigan live in Colorado, as Colorado Parks and Wildlife maps it, with separate maps for winter. Free, over unit boundaries, land ownership and the topo map, with no account.
Open the white-tailed ptarmigan range map All the map does
The white-tailed ptarmigan range maps
2 maps are published for this animal. Switch on one or several. "Show it" opens the hunting map with that range drawn.
| Range | What it is | CPW's name for it | Mapped | Last changed | On the map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-round range | Where white-tailed ptarmigan are mapped as living, at any time of year. | White-tailed Ptarmigan Overall Range | 445 areas | September 2024 | Show it |
| Winter range | Where white-tailed ptarmigan are mapped in winter. | White-tailed Ptarmigan Winter Range | 144 areas | September 2024 | Show it |
Counts and dates are from Colorado Parks and Wildlife's map service, read October 13, 2026. CPW revises these maps a region at a time, each region about every four years.
How to read a range map
- It is a broad area, not a sighting. Biologists and district wildlife managers draw these areas from what they know of each herd or population. It does not show where an animal is today.
- Weather, hunting pressure and the year all move animals. Winter range is where most are in an ordinary winter. In a mild fall they can be well above it on opening day, and after a hard storm well into it.
- Being inside a mapped range gives no right to hunt the ground. Much winter range is private. Switch on land ownership and tap the spot for the owner on record.
- A range map shows where the animal lives, not where or when it may be hunted.</b> Some of these have a short season, or none in part of their range: check this year's small game brochure.
Nothing on this map promises an animal. It is the published record of where the animal generally lives, and the hunting is still yours to do.
Seasons and where to hunt
Season dates, bag limits and where white-tailed ptarmigan may be hunted are on the white-tailed ptarmigan season page. All of Colorado's small game seasons are listed, animal by animal, under Colorado small game. Walk-in fields and state wildlife areas are on the walk-in access map.
What is left off, on purpose
Colorado Parks and Wildlife also maps single spots an animal comes back to, such as mineral licks, water sources and roost sites, and it maps migration. Those are left off this map. That is part of our fair chase promise: published public maps of broad areas only, and never a hunter's own sightings.
Other small game and bird range maps
Wild turkey, Pheasant, Scaled quail, Bobwhite quail, Dusky grouse, Greater sage-grouse, Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, Greater prairie chicken, Abert's squirrel, Snowshoe hare, White-tailed jackrabbit. Big game: elk, mule deer.
The map shows the ground. A plan tells you where to go.
The map is free. A FilledTag hunt plan is the paid part: for your tag and where you drive from, one exact plan with a legal place to park, a camp, morning and evening spots and the walk between them, checked against land records.