Grey-faced Buzzard
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| Butastur indicus (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.
Categories: Least Concern species | Buteoninae | Birds of Asia | Birds of Southeast Asia | Birds of Brunei | Birds of Cambodia | Birds of China | Birds of Hong Kong | Birds of Indonesia | Birds of Japan | Birds of Laos | Birds of Malaysia | Birds of Burma | Birds of North Korea | Birds of South Korea | Birds of the Philippines | Birds of Singapore | Birds of Russia | Birds of Taiwan | Birds of Thailand | Birds of Vietnam
