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Photo by Ayuwat J
Doi Angkang, Chiangmai, Thailand, August 2006

Butastur liventer

[edit] Identification

38-43 cm. Grey head and underparts, streaking on the crown, neck and breast. rufous grey upperparts, uppertail is bright rufous, rufous-chestnut flight feathers, white underwing coverts, and greyish flight feathers and undertail. The juvenile is duller and browner, with a brown-grey head and white supercilium.

[edit] Distribution

China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Open woodland and scrub often occurs near rivers, paddyfields or swamps.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes lizards, small mammals and large insects.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages