Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus) - HBW 2, p. 188
French: Buse pattue
German: Rauhfußbussard
Spanish: Busardo Calzado
Other common names: Rough-legged Hawk
Taxonomy: Falco Lagopus Pontoppidan, 1763, no locality = Denmark.
Variation clinal in Palearctic, with broad intergradation zones. Race menzbieri sometimes merged into kamtschatkensis. Four subspecies normally recognized
Subspecies and Distribution:
- lagopus (Pontoppidan, 1763) - N Eurasia, from Scandinavia E to area of R Ob and R Yenisey; winters mainly in C Europe and C Asia.
- menzbieri Dementiev, 1951 - NE Asia E of R Ob and R Yenisey; winters S to C Asia, N China and Japan.
- kamtschatkensis Dementiev, 1931 - Kamchatka; presumably winters in EC Asia.
- sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788) - Alaska and N Canada; winters S to C & S USA.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Female feeding her chick with a vole, then taking off Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 15 July 2010 2 years ago 1 min 1 sec 4.8 -
Female coming back to the nest with a vole for her chicks Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 15 July 2010 2 years ago 41 sec 4.8 -
Female feeding her chick with a vole Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 15 July 2010 2 years ago 47 sec 4.7 -
Different nests with chicks in the tundra Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 5 July 2010 2 years ago 45 sec 4.4 -
A close-up of anadult bird. Locality Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark County, Norway
Javier Ortas 25 June 2010 2 years ago 31 sec 4.3 -
Bird in brush sitting on dead prey. Locality Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, USA (United States) (ssp santijohannis)
ddarbela 15 April 2011 2 years ago 35 sec 4
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Rough-legged hawk found the only roosting post in the area.
Locality Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado, USA (United States) (ssp sanctijohannis)
Mike Ross 6 January 2008 3 years ago 4.7 -
Adult Rough-legged Buzzard
Locality Vught, North Brabant Province, Netherlands (ssp lagopus)
Paul Cools 33 weeks ago 4.5 -
bird in flight2
Locality Turkey (ssp lagopus)
ziva 5 February 2010 3 years ago 4.3 -
Female - perched in a treed
Locality Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada
Blair Wainman 2 March 2010 3 years ago 4.1 -
The rough-legged hawk was sitting on a fence post in the middle of the prairrie far from any telephone poles or trees.
Locality Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado, USA (United States)
Mike Ross 8 January 2008 3 years ago 4.1 -
bird in flight.
Locality Turkey
ziva 5 February 2010 3 years ago 4
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Calls of small, then big chicks in the nests Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 5 July 2010 2 years ago 4.5 -
Adult alarming near the nest Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
Laurent Demongin 5 July 2010 2 years ago 4 -
A bird calling while flying.
Locality Ola Lagoon, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp menzbieri)
Josep del Hoyo 25 June 2009 3 years ago 3
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