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Grey-faced Buzzard - BirdForum Opus

Butastur indicus
Photo by jasnjohn

Description

Photographed on Langkawi, Malaysia.

Identification

RANGE Eastern Asia. Breeds in the Russian Far East in Ussuriland and Amurland, in north-eastern China fromHeilungkiang 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.

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

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