Grey-faced Buzzard - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by jasnjohn
Photographed on Langkawi, Malaysia

Butastur indicus

Distribution

Eastern Asia. Breeds in the Russian Far East in Ussuriland and Amurland, in north-eastern China from Heilungkiang to south-east Liaoning and Hopeh, Korea and in Japan from Honshu to Kyushu.

Winters in eastern and southern China south to Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, common in northern Borneo and Sumatra but rare on Java.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

Photo by petitebouquet
Photographed at gifu pref, Japan

Habitat

Open woodland and scrub up to 1,500m. Often occurs near rivers and paddyfields on passage

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

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