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Feathered Tarsi – Ferruginous & Rough-legged Hawks Have Feathered Legs

By Mia McPherson|November 7th, 2017|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Ferruginous Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, Swainson's Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, bare legs, bare tarsi, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, Buteo regalis, Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, feathered, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, hawk, hawks, legs, lift off, light morph, morph, perched, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, tarsus|

North America has two hawk (buteos) species that have feathered tarsi, or legs, those two species are Ferruginous Hawks and Rough-legged Hawks.

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