Pale Harrier
Circus macrourus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 3,438
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) is a species of harrier, a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It breeds in southern parts of eastern Europe and central Asia and Iran and winters mainly in India and southeast Asia. It is a rare but increasing vagrant to Great Britain and western Europe. In 2017 a pair of pallid harriers nested in a barley field in the Netherlands; they raised four chicks, the first recording breeding of the species in the country. In 2019, a pair bred in Spain for the first time. This medium-sized raptor breeds on open plains, bogs and heathland. In winter it is a bird of open country.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pallid harrier”.