Researchers have found that the rough-legged buzzard—a raptor that breeds in the Arctic and winters at mid-latitudes—has a distinctive migration pattern. After a rapid migration to the mid ...

Rough-legged hawks, known in the UK as rough-legged buzzards, are medium-sized birds of prey that breed in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of North America, Europe and Asia, before migrating south once ...

A bird of prey very similar to the much more common Buzzard, though only a small number spend winter in the UK. It has the habit of 'hanging' in the air while looking for prey, hovering much more ...

The Rough-legged Hawk seldom goes farther south along our Atlantic coast than the eastern portions of North Carolina, nor have I ever seen it to the west of the Alleghanies. It is a sluggish bird, and ...

The rough-legged hawk, Buteo lagopus, is a migrant. Like the winter finches, this avian migrates to us from its far northern breeding grounds. The taxonomic name comes from the word, buteo, the Latin ...

The Rough-legged Hawk seldom goes farther south along our Atlantic coast than the eastern portions of North Carolina, nor have I ever seen it to the west of the Alleghanies. It is a sluggish bird, and ...