Introductory
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Buteo lagopus | Rough-Legged Hawk 



ABBREVIATION : 
BULA

COMMON NAMES : 
   rough-legged hawk
   American roughleg


TAXONOMY : 
The accepted scientific name of the rough-legged hawk is Buteo lagopus
(Pontoppidan) [32].  The American subspecies is B. l. sanctijohannis
(Gmelin).  Some authors include B. l. kamtschatkensis Dementiev
(Siberian roughleg) in occurrences of rough-legged hawks in northwestern
Alaska [1]; a different interpretation treats these as intermediate
between B. l. sanctijohannis and kamtschatkensis and places them with
sanctijohannis [28].  The type subspecies, B. l. lagopus (rough-legged
buzzard), is found only in Eurasia [1,28,37].


ORDER : 
Falconiformes

CLASS : 
Bird

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
No special status

OTHER STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
Janet Sullivan, March 1995


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 



AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Sullivan, Janet. 1995. Buteo lagopus. In: Remainder of Citation

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Buteo lagopus | Rough-Legged Hawk