10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUGHLEG»
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This large buteo, noted for its broad, rounded wings, robust body, and broad fan
tail, is about 19 inches long with a 4- to 4!/2- foot wingspread. The Roughleg is
polymorphic; that is, it has two color phases, but it is not sexually dimorphic ...
... out there, unless it were Roughleg the Hawk, and if Roughleg did happen
along, all he had to do was to dive and come up far away to laugh and make fun
of Roughleg. The water couldn't get through his oily feathers, and so he didn't
mind ...
Thornton W. Burgess, 2010
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The Adventures of Sammy Jay
Instantly Roughleg spread his great wings and sailed after him.. Chatterer hadn't
gone the length of two rails before Roughleg was over him. "With his great, cruel
claws spread wide, he suddenly swooped down. Chatterer dodged to the under ...
Thornton W. Burgess, 2008
4
Old Granny Fox - With 187 Original Illustrations from ...
No one could get at him out there, unless it were Roughleg the Hawk, and if
Roughleg did happen along, all he had to do was to dive and come up far away
to laugh and make fun of Roughleg. The water couldn't get through his oily
feathers, ...
Meadow mice come in for a lot of attention from the ever hungry roughleg. A
study of its diet by researchers, who go by facts and not guesswork, shows a
preponderance of small mammals eaten by this hawk. Poultry is scarcely ever
touched at ...
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The Canadian Field-naturalist
Pesticides and Roughleg Prey Species The shrews contained an average of 0.32
ppm DDE (OD) with a SE of 0.09. These levels appear very similar to the
Peregrine's resident avian prey but appreciably lower than the migrating prey
species.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
F32 (Zoology )] UF Buteo regalis Chap-hawk Eagle hawk Ferruginous rough-
legged hawk Ferruginous roughleg Gopher hawk Squirrel hawk BT Buteo
Ferruginous owl USE Ferruginous pygmy owl Ferruginous pygmy owl (May Subd
Geog) ...
Library of Congress, 2006
Remarks: A Rough-legged Hawk, like a Gyrfalcon (Falco rustico- lus), has
unusually dense plumage with more feathers per area of skin than does, for
example, a Red-tailed Hawk; this accounts for the Roughleg's fluffed-pillow
appearance.
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Top 100 Birding Sites of the World
... Yellow-billed Egret Black Vulture Gyrfalcon Bearded Vulture Cinereous Vulture
Short-toed Snake Eagle Northern Harrier Northern Harrier Roughleg Roughleg
Asian Imperial Eagle Purple Swamphen Kurrichane Buttonquail Red Phalarope ...
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Birds of the Great Basin: A Natural History
The Shoshones called the Golden Eagle Gueh'- nah, the Rough-legged Hawk Pe
'-ah-Gueh-nahV' The Roughleg feeds mainly on small vertebrates, with its food
staple being rodents. During the winter in the Great Basin, this hawk can often be
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2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROUGHLEG»
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roughleg is used in the context of the following news items.
Brutal winter conspires against snow geese and tundra swans …
... but Matt Wlasniewski reported two short-eared owls in the same fields along Sticker Road near Blue Marsh where roughlegs, Merlins and harriers have been ... «Reading Eagle, Mar 15»
Rough-legged hawk shows up in unusual numbers
In fact, the roughleg is the rarest of all the hawks seen regularly at Hawk ... many roughlegs have been driven south and have been popping up all over the state, ... «Reading Eagle, Feb 15»
