Butastur

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Butastur
File:White-eyed Buzzard (Butastur teesa) in Kawal WS, AP W IMG 2038.jpg
in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Subfamily: Buteoninae
Genus: Butastur
Hodgson, 1843
Type species
Circus teesa
Franklin, 1831

Butastur is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

Taxonomy and species

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The genus Butastur was introduced in 1843 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the white-eyed buzzard as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is a portmanteau of the genus Buteo introduced by Bernard Germain de Lacépède for the buzzards and Astur introduced by Lacépède for the goshawks.[3] The genus now contains four species.[4]

Genus Butastur Hodgson, 1843 – four species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Rufous-winged buzzard

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Butastur liventer
(Temminck, 1827)
southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia. Size:

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Grasshopper buzzard

File:019 Grasshopper buzzard at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

Butastur rufipennis
(Sundevall, 1850)
Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia, migrating south to Sierra Leone, Cameroon, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and northern Tanzania Size:

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White-eyed buzzard

File:White-eyed buzzard (Butastur teesa) Photograph By Shantanu Kuveskar 2.jpg

Butastur teesa
(Franklin, 1831)
Iran, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar
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Grey-faced buzzard

File:Butastur indicus 30197174.jpg

Butastur indicus
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Russia, North China, Korea, Japan, and Philippines
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References

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