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Rough-legged Hawk, Buteo lagopus.
November 23 to February 15. Rare winter visitor. During the 1980s at least one bird has been seen in the region each year, suggesting that it reaches the Arkansas Ozarks regularly though in only small numbers. The extreme winter weather of December 1983 and January 1984 was marked by the appearance of three Rough-legged Hawks on December 27, 1983 (one at Wedington west of Fayetteville, and two at Siloam Springs). Almost all birds have been in the light phase plumage. Full documentation was presented for a dark phase bird seen two miles east of Maysville on January 15, 1987, and thereafter. Harlan's Hawks are often misidentified as dark phase Rough-legged Hawks.

Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetos.
October 18 to March 8. Rare winter visitor. Much less numerous than the Bald Eagle. Wheeler (1924) published a secondhand report of an eagle nesting on the Mulberry River, but there have been no such reports since.

American Kestrel, Falco sparverius.
Fairly common permanent resident that is most numerous during the winter months. It has nested regularly on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville in cavities of trees and at least once in Old Main. The four birds perched together on a wire near Durham in Washington County on March 12, 1985, appeared to be migrants, as did the seven on a wire in northern Franklin County on October 3, 1985.