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Buteo archeri

[edit] Identification

Chestnut upperparts, white throat with black on the sides, rich chestnut underparts.
Immature birds have white underparts and a barred tail.

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Africa: found in the highlands of northern Somalia

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

This taxon is considered a subspecies or even a color morph of Augur Buzzard by some authors^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Mountains and adjacent savanna and grassland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It builds a large stick nest in a tree or on a crag, and 2 creamy or bluish white eggs are laid and incubated by the female for about 40 days.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes small ground mammals, snakes, lizards, small ground birds, insects, and road-kill.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Thread in the Taxonomy Forum discussing the relationships of Archer's Buzzard and Augur Buzzard

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