Grasshopper buzzard
| Grasshopper buzzard | |
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| in Far North Region, Cameroon | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Butastur |
| Species: | B. rufipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Butastur rufipennis (Sundevall, 1851) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Buteo rufipennis | |
The grasshopper buzzard (Butastur rufipennis) is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.
Description
It is brown with a eye orange eye patch around its eyes and an orange black-tipped beak.
References
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- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Butastur rufipennis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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