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Rough-legged Hawk

Buteo lagopus ORDER: ACCIPITRIFORMES FAMILY: ACCIPITRIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A hawk of the North, the Rough-legged Hawk breeds in Arctic tundra and taiga regions around the northern hemisphere. Both dark and light forms are common, with many birds intermediate between the extremes.

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Calls

  • Alarm call and adult scream of a Rough-legged Hawk. Recorded in Manitoba, Canada by Arthur A. Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg. Sound and spectrogram courtesy of Macaulay Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (LNS #4301).
    Recorded by Arthur A. Allen, Peter Paul Kellogg
    Manitoba, Canada
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a drawn-out, downward "kaaaar."

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