Grey-faced Buzzard

Grey-faced Buzzard

Taxobox
name = Grey-faced Buzzard
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Falconiformes
familia = Accipitridae
genus = "Butastur"
species = "B. indicus"
binomial = "Butastur indicus"
binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1788)

The Grey-faced Buzzard ("Butastur indicus") is an Asian bird of prey. It is typically between 41-46 cm in length, making it a medium-sized raptor. It breeds in East Russia, North China, Korea, Japan, and winters in South-east Asia.

It is a bird of open land. It eats lizards, small mammals and large insects.

The adult has a grey head, breast and neck, white throat, black moustaches and mesial stripes, brown back and upperwings, and brown bars on white underparts and underwings. The juvenile is brown and mottled above, pale below with brown streaks, has broad white supercilium and brown face.

For bird watchers: The grey-faced buzzard is easily seen in Taiwan.


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