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Common Buzzard 



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COMMON BUZZARD 



The Rough-legged Buzzard {Biiteo lagopus, Gm.). 



The Rough-legged Buzzard is purely a winter visitor to tliis 

 country, arriving in Octol^er, and generally leaving by the end of 

 Januar\' or early in February ; in exceptional cases prolonging 

 their visit to March and even April. I have one skin dated April 

 19th. 



They are verv much commoner on the East Coast of England 

 than in the Centre, South or West. On the East they become 

 rarer north of Yorkshire. In Scotland it is a somewhat scarce 

 bird even on the East. 



In some seasons this Buzzard is exceedingly plentiful, coming 

 over in great rushes. In i8gi, for example, five Buzzards were 

 shot or trapped on the Scotts Hall and Dunwich Walks, Suffolk 

 coast, between October 30th and November 3rd. Many others were 

 seen at the same time, both there and at Sizewell. In other vears 



