| Less obliging was a probable
Rough-legged Buzzard in the Pen-y-pass area of Snowdonia last week.
Join a caravan along country roads in Kane County, looking for snow buntings, horned larks, Lapland longspurs and
rough-legged hawks.
Rough-legged hawks are common and can be seen perching on trees and utility poles in winter.
Other changes in cliff-nesting raptor occurrence included a decrease in occupied Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) territories from four in 1977 to one in 1979 and two in 2008, a decrease in
Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) nests from one in 1979 (none in 1977) to none in 2008, and increases in Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nests, from two in 1977 and 1979 to five in 2008.
3), 3 Swainson's Hawks (Buteo swainsoni), 2 Ferruginous Hawks (Buteo regalis), 1
Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus), and 1 Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) to the test enclosure (n = 17; Table 1).
The prosecution charged Ross with four counts involving red-tailed, Swainson's,
rough-legged, and other hawks shot by employees of his pheasant-hunting lodge, ScatterGun.
In addition, we may periodically see other rare northern migrants like the great gray, boreal, hawk and long-eared owls, as well as gyrfalcons and
rough-legged hawks.
The bird lived in an enclosure with another adult red-tailed hawk and an adult
rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus), both of which were healthy at that time.
elegans in our study system (see Table 2): Brewer's blackbird, raven, common crow, sharp-shinned hawk, harrier or
rough-legged hawk, and sandhill crane.
"A
rough-legged hawk comes sailing over the meadow ahead.
Up to three
rough-legged buzzards, wintering here from arctic regions, were hunting in the dunes nearby - but I didn't manage to see any!
I sighted 382 total birds; red-tailed (Buteo jamaicensis) and
rough-legged hawks (B.