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Rough-legged Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk

Posted on March 3, 2015March 3, 2015 by Lauren Shaffer in Birds of Prey
Rough-legged Hawk

The Rough-legged Hawk, a gorgeous raptor which breeds in the Artic, comes south in the winter through Canada to stay in much of the U.S. in order to find food. We see them here in rural Central PA towards the middle of winter, in good numbers. They are also found in Asia, Europe and Greenland unlike our other […]

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Rough-legged Hawk Food Fight!

Posted on February 13, 2014February 14, 2014 by Lauren Shaffer in Birds of Prey
Rough-legged Hawk

  Identification of Rough-legged Hawk The Rough-legged Hawk is a buteo like the Red-tailed Hawk, but is a little larger. It has both a light and a dark morph, with much variability. The hawks pictured here are all light morph. They have dark “wrist” patches on the wings, and a dark belly. A U-shaped lighter […]

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Winter Birds of the Fields: Northern Harriers, Snow Buntings, and Horned Larks

Posted on December 16, 2013January 5, 2014 by Lauren Shaffer in Birds
Eastern Starlings

There is always something to see out there in the cold if you bother to bundle up and look.  With the many sightings of Snowy Owl that others in the area have had, I’ve been driving the country roads, keeping my eyes peeled for white humps in white fields, turning up only a few plastic […]

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