#0782 · 🐦 birds

Rough-legged Hawk

🇳🇱 Ruigpootbuizerd ·Buteo lagopus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Lisa Saffell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Rick Leche - Photography · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Dmitry Boldyrev · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Channa Jayasinghe · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © kosforester · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Jon David Nelson · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © r_david · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © davehh · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Jonathan Eisen · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The rough-legged buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ), also called the rough-legged hawk , is a medium-large bird of prey. It is found in Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Eurasia during the breeding season and migrates south for the winter. It was traditionally also known as the rough-legged falcon in such works as John James Audubon's The Birds of America .

base stats

NL sightings 33iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 23,000iNaturalist observations
weight 1 kgadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).