Gray-faced Buzzard
Butastur indicus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,508
- Most observed in
- 🇹🇼 Taiwan
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey. It is typically 41–46 cm (16–18 in) in length, making it a small-sized raptor. It breeds in Manchuria, Korea and Japan; it winters in South-east Asia. It is a bird of open land. It eats lizards, small mammals and large insects. The adult has a grey head, breast and neck, white throat, black moustaches and mesial stripes, brown back and upperwings, and brown bars on white underparts and underwings. The juvenile is brown and mottled above, pale below with brown streaks, and has a broad white supercilium and brown face.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Grey-faced buzzard”.