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Common Buzzard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) and Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus). Buzzards are the largest bird of prey to be found in most of England. Buzzards do not normally form flocks, but several may be seen together on migration or in good habitat. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Buzzard   (246 words)

ZooPhotoCalendar February 2001 - Rough-legged buzzard The Rough-legged buzzard inhabiting the North of Europe as winter guest comes to Germany too, above all to the North and the East. The rough-legged buzzard inhabite the tundra on the other side of the timber-lines. Subspecies live in Northern Asia and Northern America. hometown.aol.de /_ht_a/Katibert20/Kalender/zofeb2_01.htm   (52 words)

RanuaZoo The rough-legged buzzard is a migratory bird that flies to central or southern Europe in the autumn. However, it is not over-sensitive to the cold and the rough-legged buzzards have been outside during a mild winter. The honey buzzards are also unusual in the sense that they are easily tamed when in the care of humans. www.ranuazoo.com /?deptid=6890   (406 words)

* Buzzard - (Animals): Definition The plumage is variously coloured and the bird may be distinguished from other buzzards by its longer tail and neck, smaller head, and narrow-based wings... In the 19th century, buzzards were shot in large numbers by gamekeepers and by the early 1900s they had disappeared from many parts of Britain... Eagles belong to the subfamily Buteoninae, typified by the European buzzards and large American hawks (Buteo); they are distinguished from others of the subfamily by their large,... www.bestknows.com /animals/buzzard.html   (473 words)

Rough-legged Buzzard The rough legged Buzzard would be mainly observed in the Eastern half of the UK as we are on the extreme western edge of its winter movements, however is the pressure of prey numbers does occur then even the western half the UK may be able to observe this un common winter visitor. Would be easily mistaken for Common Buzzard, and is named Rough Legged because of its adaptation to life in its breeding area of near artic conditions. The rough legged Buzzard has a unique covering of feathers running full length of the legs to the beginning of the toes. www.hawkandowl.org /page83aaaaa.html   (216 words)

Recoveries of 1997, Bird Ringing Centre Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus (9121322), ringed 7 July 1982 in the vicinity of Boden in Norrbotten as a nestling. Direction 186 degrees S. This is the most southern Swedish recovery of a Rough-legged Buzzard, and also the oldest so far. Buzzard Buteo buteo (9030029), ringed 14 June 1975 at Krankesjön in Scania as a nestling. www.nrm.se /rc/news97.html.en   (372 words)

Rough-legged Buzzard The Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus), called the Rough-legged Hawk in North America, is a medium-large bird of prey. Compared to Common Buzzard, it is longer-winged and more eagle-like in appearance. It has feathered legs (hence its scientific name) as an adaptation to its arctic home range. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/rough_legged_buzzard   (238 words)

buzzard The common buzzard Buteo buteo of Europe and Asia is about 55 cm/1.8 ft long with a wingspan of over 1.2 m/4 ft. It preys on a variety of small animals up to the size of a rabbit. In the British Isles, the buzzard, Buteo buteo, is quite commonly found in Scotland, Wales, the Lake District, and southwest England. Buzzards are in the falcon family, Falconidae, order Falconiformes. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007487.html   (217 words)

Notts RSPB: Articles: Rough-Legged Buzzard at Oxton The rough-legged buzzard is generally a tame species and usually allows close approach by people, although it can be aggres- sive close to its nest. Birdwatchers throughout the East Midlands rushed to the village after hearing that a Scandinavian rough-legged buzzard was in the area. The rough-legged buzzard us- ually winters in Central USA, Southern Europe and Asia. www.notts-rspb.org.uk /articles/rlbtwitch.html   (401 words)

Did you know - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds It is readily confused with honey buzzard, rough-legged buzzard, hen harrier, marsh harrier, red kite, and even golden eagle. The newest name for the buzzard is tourists eagle, a rather unkind name coined by the Scots due to the regularity with which visitors mistake buzzards for golden eagles. The buzzard has one of the most variable plumages of any wild bird, and so the identification can be difficult. www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/b/buzzard/did_you_know.asp   (166 words)

Rough-legged Hawk It is also known as a Rough-legged Buzzard. NAME DERIVATION: The scientific name is from the Latin word buteo, referring to a kind of falcon or hawk, and the Greek words lagos, for hare or rabbit and pous, meaning a foot. The common and scientific names refer to the completely feathered legs. www.peregrinefund.org /Explore_Raptors/hawks/ruffleg.html   (308 words)

Untitled Although the total number of rough-legged buzzard fledglings produced per unit area showed a significant positive correlation with the SMD in a single-factor regression, the most accurate multiple regression model to predict overall reproductive output included only the rate of change of the small mammal species diversity. The data consist of parameters of small mammal population fluctuations (small mammal density (SMD), average body weight, species diversity and rate of change of species diversity), inter-specific competition and meteorological factors (mean temperature and snow melt date) during every stage of the breeding cycle of the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus). The number of offspring produced by the buzzards in a given area fluctuated synchronously with the SMD, but the cycle was significantly more consistent in amplitude in the predator as compared to the prey. www.oikos.ekol.lu.se /Oikos.78.2.abstract/7277POTA.HTM   (271 words)

Buzzard A buzzard is a type of bird of prey, in any of several different but related senses: A medium-sized wide-ranging raptor with a robust body and broad wings. A buzzard is a type of bird of prey, in any of several different but related senses: The honey-buzzards, genus Pernis, superficially resemble Buteo buzzards, hence the name, but are specialist feeders on wasp nests and larvae. www.explainthat.info /bu/buzzard.html   (477 words)

Pbirdarc0703 The rough legged buzzard and spotted eagles show that some birds are moving already, though the storks and sandpipers really make me wonder what is going on. A rough legged buzzard was circling but very heavily in moult. A rough legged buzzard, it must have been the same one. www.cretanvista.com /Pbirdarch0703.htm   (665 words)

Pbirdarc1003 A rough legged buzzard; a male hen harrier. Three pairs of common buzzards in the air together; a pair of ravens; a single steppe buzzard; followed by a flock of 6 griffon vultures. Another pair of steppe buzzards being vigorously mobbed by a pair of hooded crows; a male hen harrier slipped by. www.cretanvista.com /Pbirdarch1003.htm   (685 words)

Buteo buteo Buzzards are sizeable and chunky birds with large, broad, blunt-ended wings, fairly short, broad tails and short, rounded heads. They can show a variety of plumages but they are generally dull brown with darker areas at the wrists and paler panels in the primaries. www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Buteo_buteo.htm   (215 words)

Bavarian Birds Photos 2/2003 Long-legged Buzzard, Rough-legged Buzzard, Buzzard and Hen Harrier Feldflur Bibergau, Lkr. www.bavarianbirds.de /foto0302_e.htm   (52 words)

BirdForum - Eagle or Rough-legged buzzard? The photographer, Anni Nielsen, says its an eagle, others that its an rough-legged buzzard. I can't see a good reason why this isn't a Common Buzzard, the fact that it is just starting to moult it's primaries at this date strongly suggests a Common Buzzard born the previous year. Some Common Buzzards get very pale - I even saw one (in Denmark too!) that was nearly pure white all over www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=8222   (101 words)

Rough Legged Buzzard The breeding and migration cycle of the Roughlegged Buzzard is dependent on the small mammal population which comprises the bulk of its diet. The Roughlegged Buzzard is so named because of the covering of feathers which extends down its legs as far as its toes. During years of glut, Buzzards breed freely during the summer and so, when the winter mammal population declines, large numbers of juveniles disperse southwards, resulting in large influxes into the UK. www.the-owl-barn.com /bbop/rough.html   (141 words)

Boreal Forests of the World Bird Species - Rough-legged Buzzard Boreal Forests of the World Bird Species - Rough-legged Buzzard Known in North America as a Rough-legged Hawk, it is similar in appearance and size to a Red-tailed Hawk. Feathered down the legs to the tops of its feet, it has a variety of color phases from dark melanistic to light. www.borealforest.org /world/birds/rough_legged_buzzard.htm   (149 words)

w-siber.htm Wildfowl and Willow Grouse were rare; Rough-legged Buzzard was common and at a transect reached density of 0.2 pair/km. In September there was a lot of voles in the floodplain, which attracted migrating Rough-legged Buzzards. Lemmings were absent, but Middendorff's Vole Microtus middendorffi was numerous in the areas dominated by sedge-moss tundra with dwarf shrub and willow (up to 20 animals/100 trap-nights). www.wetlands.org /programs/RussiaCD/eng/w-siber.htm   (703 words)

Hawk, Birds, Hawk, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia Except in North America, hawks of the genus Buteo and closely related forms are called buzzards; for example, B. lagopus, the rough-legged hawk, is known in Europe as the rough-legged buzzard. Hawks range in size from the African little sparrow hawk, Accipiter minullus, which might have a wingspan of 35 cm (14 in), to the rough-legged hawk, with a wingspan of 1.5 m (5 ft). The name hawk is also used to refer to certain FALCONS (family Falconidae) and to other birds of prey (see FALCONRY). www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=50   (130 words)

pays-bas4_gb In Lelystadt, Flevoland, there was another Rough-legged Buzzard and a White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) just as we were leaving the country. Besides all these birds, from the Praamweg hide we were able to see a Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus) and 200 Smews (Mergus albellus). In Den Oever, 13 Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina) and a Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus). perso.wanadoo.fr /gerard.joannes/pays-bas4_gb.htm   (428 words)

Saturday 19th June 1999 I drove down to meet him and found that he was also looking for the Rough-legged Buzzard and knew this to be the right spot. After nearly two hours the Rough-legged Buzzard re-appeared on top of the original bush. I was able to note its almost black belly and its white tail with black terminal bar. www.birder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /010100.htm   (550 words)

Rough-legged Falcon In the 1847 edition, the bird is called the Rough-legged Buzzard. The transfer drawing is at the Natural History Society of Northumbria, #3. The engraving of this bird was first published in the Supplement of 1821. www.sharecom.ca /bewick/landbirds/9040018.html   (36 words)

* Buzzard - (Bird): Definition Black Vultures are heavier birds than Turkey Buzzards, and whenever the ownership of food is in question the dispute is invariably settled in the Vulture's favor... Sparrowhawk had its food snatched by a Merlin, which, in turn was robbed by a Honey Buzzard (a Eurasian accipiter), which lost it to a Peregrine Falcon. The red-tailed hawk (Butero jamaicensis) resembles the common buzzard of western Europe (Buteo buteo). www.bestknows.com /bird/buzzard.html   (422 words)

Chapter Rotchet <i>to</i> Rouk of R by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition) A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff. In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely. Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; — so called from their rough tails. www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1209/23893/6.html   (219 words)

BirdForum - Hovering Buzzard In May 2001 I was on the Isle of Mull and I saw several Common Buzzards hovering and this I had not seen before, at least not here in Gloucestershire. They tend to hold position in the wind rather than hover but don't forget the Honey Buzzard which does actually hover, and there are a few around, although I haven't heard of any in the Somerset area. It is certainly something common Buzzards do but I have only seen it once or twice so it is quite uncommon. www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=5163   (731 words)

PaulBird1 2 lesser kestrel; 1 common buzzard or rough-legged buzzard; 1 crested Lark; 1 marmoras warbler. In the reed marshes between hotel and the sea: 3 common buzzards; many yellow-legged gull; swifts; house martins; 1 crested Lark. 5 or 6 griffon vulture, soaring through the Gorge, nesting in 2 nests high on a ledge; 2 chough or red-billed chough (to far away to be sure); 1 rüppels warbler; a few Common Buzzard. www.cretanvista.net /Pbirdarch0605.htm   (847 words)

DOFT - Rare birds in the Faeroe Islands in 2001 and 2002 A second-time record was Franklin's Gull (2nd cy, Nólsoy harbour, 20.6.2002) and a new subspecies was of the North American form of Rough-legged Buzzard (Rough-legged Hawk) [Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis] (Streymoy, adult found moribound (subsequently died), 6.04.2002). Two new species to the Faeroese list were Lesser Kestrel (Streymoy, 3rd cy male found dead in August 2001) and Radde's Warbler (ringed at Nólsoy Bygd, 18.10.2001). www.eurobirding.com /birdingmagazines/artinfo.php?id=7035   (113 words)

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