Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the tarsi feathered; feather-footed, as a hawk: specifically noting the members of the genus Archibuteo. The common rough-legged hawk or buzzard is A. lagopus. See cuts under
Archibuteo and squirrel-hawk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See
Roughleg .
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Examples
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The rough-legged hawk, a visiting stranger in these parts, came hunting over the fields.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Chickadees, grey-crowned rosy-finches, ravens, bald eagles, goldeneyes and a few red-winged blackbirds, a pair of blue-winged teal and a solitary rough-legged hawk were livening up the wind.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The rough-legged hawk, a visiting stranger in these parts, came hunting over the fields.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The rough-legged hawk, a visiting stranger in these parts, came hunting over the fields.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The rough-legged hawk, a visiting stranger in these parts, came hunting over the fields.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Chickadees, grey-crowned rosy-finches, ravens, bald eagles, goldeneyes and a few red-winged blackbirds, a pair of blue-winged teal and a solitary rough-legged hawk were livening up the wind.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Chickadees, grey-crowned rosy-finches, ravens, bald eagles, goldeneyes and a few red-winged blackbirds, a pair of blue-winged teal and a solitary rough-legged hawk were livening up the wind.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Chickadees, grey-crowned rosy-finches, ravens, bald eagles, goldeneyes and a few red-winged blackbirds, a pair of blue-winged teal and a solitary rough-legged hawk were livening up the wind.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Sharp-shinned and cooper's hawks, as well as merlins, are rare, but not unheard of, and this time of year, the south-bound migration brings red-shouldered, broad-winged, and rough-legged hawks passing overhead.
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Birds of prey such as snowy owls, short-eared owls (Asio flammeus), jaegers (skuas – Stercorarius spp.), and rough-legged buzzards (Buteo lagopus) are lemming and vole specialists that are only able to breed at peak lemming densities and which aggregate in areas with high lemming densities.
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