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Photo © by AyuwatJ
Cho Lae, Chiangmai, Thailand

Circus melanoleucos

Identification

Adult male - head, nape, ,throat, breast, back, scapulars black, upper tail coverts white with grey barring, yellow eyes, yellow or green cere, feet yellow-orange.

Adult female - dark brown crown, nape, upper side, tail grey brown with 5 broad brown bands, white underpart, brown eyes, grey cere and yellow legs.

Distribution

East and South-East Asia.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Habitat

Open grasslands, swamps, marshes and paddyfields.

Behaviour

Diet

Diet includes frogs, lizards, ground birds and insects.

Breeding

Nests made of grass, reeds and weeds are built on the ground. 4-5 white-green eggs are laid. The female incubates for 30 days and both parents feed the young.

Vocalisation=

In display the male's call is keee-veeee and the female's a rapid kee-kee-kee, or a rapid chattering chak-chak-chak-chak-chak-chak, rather like the call of a magpie.

References

Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Pied Harrier. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pied_Harrier

External Links

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+[[Image:Pied_Harrier.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Photo &copy; by {{user|AyuwatJ|AyuwatJ}} <br/> Cho Lae, Chiangmai, [[Thailand]]]]
-[[Image:Pied_Harrier.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by AyuwatJ]]
+;[[:Category:Circus|Circus]] melanoleucos
-==Description==
-Cho Lae, Chiangmai, Thailand
 ==Identification==
-Pied Harrier
+Adult male - head, nape, ,throat, breast, back, scapulars black, upper tail coverts white with grey barring, yellow eyes, yellow or green cere, feet yellow-orange.
-Circus melanoluecos
-RANGE  East and South-East Asia. Breeds in eastern Siberia from Lake Baikal to Ussuriland, in Korea and Heilungkiang in northern China.
-   A summer visitor to breeding range, passage birds occur throughout central, southern and eastern China, rarely Japan. Winters in Burma, Thailand and Indochina south to the Malay Peninsula, on the Philippines and northern Borneo.
-HABITAT Open grasslands, swamps, marshes and paddyfields.
+Adult female - dark brown crown, nape, upper side, tail grey brown with 5 broad brown  bands, white underpart, brown eyes, grey cere and yellow legs.
+==Distribution==
+East and South-East [[Asia]].
+==Taxonomy==
+This is a [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.
+==Habitat==
+Open grasslands, swamps, marshes and paddyfields.
+==Behaviour==
+====Diet====
+Diet includes frogs, lizards, ground birds and insects.
+====Breeding====
+Nests made of grass, reeds and weeds are built on the ground.  4-5  white-green eggs are laid.   The female incubates for 30 days and both parents feed the young.
+===Vocalisation====
+In display the male's call is ''keee-veeee'' and the female's a rapid ''kee-kee-kee'', or a rapid chattering ''chak-chak-chak-chak-chak-chak'', rather like the call of a magpie.
+==References==
+#{{Ref-Clements6thOct23}}
+{{ref}}
 ==External Links==
-*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&si=Circus%20melanoleucos&what=allfields&name=&when=&whenterm= View more images of Pied Harrier in the gallery]
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