NOUN
- large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers
How To Use Buteo lagopus In A Sentence
- Birds of prey such as snowy owls, short-eared owls (Asio flammeus), jaegers (skuas – Stercorarius spp.), and rough-legged buzzards (Buteo lagopus) are lemming and vole specialists that are only able to breed at peak lemming densities and which aggregate in areas with high lemming densities. Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
