NOUN
- large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers
How To Use rough-legged hawk In A Sentence
- Look for the soaring rough-legged hawk and the hovering kestrel as each hunts for ground squirrels and other rodents.
- On the breeding grounds of the Rough-legged Hawk, lemmings are an important food source.
- Sharp-shinned and cooper's hawks, as well as merlins, are rare, but not unheard of, and this time of year, the south-bound migration brings red-shouldered, broad-winged, and rough-legged hawks passing overhead. Knowing a hawk from a handsaw, pt 1
- On the other hand, there is a rich community of specialist and generalist predators (arctic foxes, stoats, snowy owls, rough-legged hawks, gulls, jaegers and ravens), all of which feed on lemmings.
