Mountain Buzzard
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| Mountain Buzzard | |
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| In Ethiopia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes (or Accipitriformes, q.v.) |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Buteo |
| Species: | B. oreophilus |
| Binomial name | |
| Buteo oreophilus Hartert and Neumann, 1914 | |
The Mountain Buzzard (Buteo oreophilus) is a bird of prey that lives in montane forests in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and extreme eastern DR Congo) and forests and plantations in South Africa. The latter population is sometimes considered a separate species, the Forest Buzzard (B. o. trizonatus).[2]
At 45–50 cm, it is smaller than the Steppe Buzzard and darker brown, with less rufous above.
Sbuspecies
There are two recognized subspecies:[3]
- Buteo oreophilus oreophilus (Mountain Buzzard)
- Buteo oreophilus trizonatus (Forest Buzzard)
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Buteo oreophilus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan, 2003, Struik Publishers, ISBN 1-86872-857-9
- ↑ Clements, J.F.; T.S. Schulenberg, M.J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, & C.L. Wood (2010). "The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Version 6.5" (xls). Cornell University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
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