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Muir cock

Frae Wikipedia, the free beuk o knawledge
(Reguidit frae Muircock)
Lagopus lagopus lagopus

The Muir cock or Muir foul (Lagopus lagopus) is fae the order Galliformes. Whiles kent as the muir bird, gor-cock or reid foul an aw. The speshie in Scotland is for ordinar clessifee'd as a subspeshie o Lagopus lagopus but is whiles thocht tae be a sindry speshie Lagopus scoticus. Thae birds feeds mainly on vegetable fuid, but will feed on gollachs forby, ance eerant whan feedin a cleckin. They are whiles huntit for fuid.