Long-winged Harrier

Circus buffoni - Busard de Buffon

Busard de Buffon
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Accipitriformes

  • Family
    :

    Accipitridés

  • Genus
    :

    Circus

  • Species
    :

    buffoni

Descriptor

Gmelin, JF, 1788

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 60 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 119 à 155 cm.
  • Weight
    : 390 à 645 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Busard de Buffon
♀ adult
Busard de Buffon
♀ adult

Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) is a species of bird in the Accipitridae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Busard de Buffon,
  • Aguilucho de Azara,
  • gavião-do-banhado,
  • Weißbrauenweihe,
  • fehérhasú rétihéja,
  • Buffons Kiekendief,
  • Albanella alilunghe,
  • långvingad kärrhök,
  • Langvingekjerrhauk,
  • kaňa tmavá,
  • moták dlouhokřídlý,
  • Langvinget Kærhøg,
  • pampasuohaukka,
  • arpella de Buffon,
  • błotniak długoskrzydły,
  • Длиннокрылый лунь,
  • ハネナガチュウヒ,
  • 长翅鹞,
  • 長翅鷂,

Voice song and cries

Busard de Buffon
♂ adult

Habitat

Busard de Buffon
♀ adult

Savanna : Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Wetlands (inland) : Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha) ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Distribution

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Other sources of interest

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