Mountain buzzard
| Mountain buzzard | |
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| In Ethiopia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| 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 now usually considered a separate species, the forest buzzard (Buteo trizonatus).[2]
At 45–50 cm, it is smaller than the steppe buzzard and darker brown, with less rufous above.
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
External links
- Mountain buzzard - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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