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Rough-legged hawk

Buteo lagopus

Description:

This medium sized hawk was sitting on a fence post alongside a dirt road near Ignacio, CO.

4 Comments

naquillity
naquillity 9 years ago

great capture... he's a beauty...

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textless 11 years ago

Thanks for the ID, ChristyHolland!

notnoahbell
notnoahbell 11 years ago

My favorite bird

ChristyHolland
ChristyHolland 11 years ago

Beautiful capture...of a Roughie!! Rough-Legged Hawks are wintering birds here in Colorado (I'm in the Denver area). They migrate down from their summering/breeding grounds up in the tundra/taiga of northern Canada and Alaska. They are feathered down to their toes...unlike the Red-Tailed Hawk that has bare legs about half the way up from the feet. Great spotting!!

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Colorado, USA

Spotted on Jan 5, 2013
Submitted on Jan 23, 2013

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