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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[European Honey Buzzard]]'''</div>
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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Pied Wheatear]]'''</div>
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[[Image:Buteo vespeiro - Pernis apivorus - European honey buzzard -.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Photo by {{user|RogerioRodrigues|Rogerio Rodrigues}}]]
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[[Image:1050 1072 1084 1077 1085 1082 1072 P5283531.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Photo by {{user|Oleg+Chernyshov|Oleg Chernyshov}}]]
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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This species is almost as variable as [[Common Buzzard]], but one almost invariable feature (at least in adult birds) is the tail pattern with one dark band at the end and two near the base of the tail. In flight, it will often hold its head with bill pointing forwards, often compared to the head of a [[Common Cuckoo]], while [[Common Buzzard]] tends to have its bill pointing downwards. In flight, tail is longer, neck is longer, while the head is small on a Honey Buzzard.
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'''Males''' look strikingly black-and-white, with white undertail [[Topography#General Anatomy|coverts]], no white in the wing in flight, an anchor-shaped tail pattern (frequently looking broken), and often, a buff or yellowish flush on the upper breast.
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
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Widespread in Eurasia and [[Africa]]. A summer visitor to most of Continental [[Europe]], breeding north to the English Channel, [[Denmark]], and much of [[Scandinavia]] north to the head of Gulf of Bothnia and east across northern [[Asia]]. The southern limits are central [[Spain]], [[Corsica]], and central [[Italy]] and the Black Sea.
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Breeds in dry, stony areas in the far east of [[Europe]] from the Black Sea coasts in the northeast of [[Bulgaria]] through eastern [[Romania]], [[Moldova]], southern [[Ukraine]] and southernmost [[Russia]], and across southwest and central [[Asia]] from [[Kazakhstan]] and easternmost [[Turkey]] east to northern [[China]].
  
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Revision as of 15:52, 1 October 2017

Featured Article: Pied Wheatear
Photo by Oleg Chernyshov

Identification

Males look strikingly black-and-white, with white undertail coverts, no white in the wing in flight, an anchor-shaped tail pattern (frequently looking broken), and often, a buff or yellowish flush on the upper breast.

Distribution

Breeds in dry, stony areas in the far east of Europe from the Black Sea coasts in the northeast of Bulgaria through eastern Romania, Moldova, southern Ukraine and southernmost Russia, and across southwest and central Asia from Kazakhstan and easternmost Turkey east to northern China.

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