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| + | A small greyish brown hawk, about 45cm long[2], the White-eyed Buzzard has a white throat, two dark cheek stripes, brown and white underparts, and orange-yellow cere. Eyes white or yellowish white, conspicuous at close quarters. A whitish nuchal patch and buffish wing shoulders provide additional clues to its identity. Sexes alike. Singly, in open scrub country. Habits: Affects dry open country and thin deciduous forest; avoids humid and densely-wooded tracts. Rather sluggish. Perches on dry trees, telegraph posts, etc., and swoops down on its prey. | ||
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| + | Call: A not unpleasant, plaintive mewing, usually uttered when pairs soar in circles high up in the air. Often in company with larger birds of prey, silhouette, of the rounded wings reminiscent of the Shikra | ||
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White-eyed Buzzard | White-eyed Buzzard | ||
Revision as of 19:27, 12 May 2007
- Butastur teesa
Description
Location: Turrehalli, Bangalore, India
A small greyish brown hawk, about 45cm long[2], the White-eyed Buzzard has a white throat, two dark cheek stripes, brown and white underparts, and orange-yellow cere. Eyes white or yellowish white, conspicuous at close quarters. A whitish nuchal patch and buffish wing shoulders provide additional clues to its identity. Sexes alike. Singly, in open scrub country. Habits: Affects dry open country and thin deciduous forest; avoids humid and densely-wooded tracts. Rather sluggish. Perches on dry trees, telegraph posts, etc., and swoops down on its prey.
Call: A not unpleasant, plaintive mewing, usually uttered when pairs soar in circles high up in the air. Often in company with larger birds of prey, silhouette, of the rounded wings reminiscent of the Shikra
Identification
White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa RANGE Southern Asia. Breeds in Pakistan, most of India except the far south-west, Nepal, western China,Burma and south to southern Thailand. Resident. -west Yunnan, Thailand, southern Laos, south Vietnam and Cambodia. Also in south-east Borneo, Sulawesi and Java. Resident.
HABITAT Dry, open woodland and scrub, occurring up to 900m in the Himalayas.
