The Rough-legged Hawk (called Rough-legged Buzzard in Europe) is a hawk of the arctic. It will come south in the winter and becomes the most common hawk in the winter where it occurs.
Sometimes it is a bit hard to tell from the Red-tailed Hawk, but there are differences in the tail pattern and wing pattern.
Classification:
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Buteo
Species: B. lagopus
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Rough-legged Buzzard
