Rough-legged Hawk

The rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus) is a bird of the Accipitridae family — species of bird.

Across the 35 countries we cover it has 843,222 published records, most of them from Sweden, Canada and Denmark. It is strongly seasonal: records peak in January, April and October and fall to their lowest in July and August.

Its global conservation status is least concern on the IUCN Red List.