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

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-23T13:46:17-05:00November 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.

Rough-legged Hawk on a Designated Parking Sign

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-06T08:03:28-05:00January 23rd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, fog, foggy, frost, frosty, hawks, hoar frost, immature, light morph, parking sign, perched, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, sign, tarsus, whiteout, whiteout conditions, winter, young|

Many of the birds here in the Salt Lake Valley find a place to roost in the evening and overnight frost begins to accumulate on their feathers like it did on this Rough-legged Hawk on a parking sign.