Grey-faced Buzzard - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name Grey-faced Buzzard Eagle

Photo by jasnjohn
Photographed on Langkawi, Malaysia

Butastur indicus

Identification

41–48 cm (16-19 in)

• Cream colored supercilium
• Greyish cheeks
• White throat with black mesial stripe
• Greyish-brown head

Distribution

Eastern Asia.
Breeds in the Russian Far East in Ussuriland and Amurland, in north-eastern China from Heilungkiang to south-east Liaoning and Hopeh, Korea and in Japan from Honshu to Kyushu.

Winters in eastern and southern China south to Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, common in northern Borneo and Sumatra but rare on Java.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

Photo by petitebouquet
Photographed at gifu pref, Japan

Habitat

Open woodland and scrub up to 1,500m. Often occurs near rivers and paddyfields on passage

Behaviour

Diet

They often hunt from a high perch. Their main diet consists of frogs, lizards, snakes, rodents, insects and possibly birds.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2015)
3. BF Member observations

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Grey-faced Buzzard. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Grey-faced_Buzzard

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