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Buteo rufinus (Long-legged
buzzard)
Langbeenjakkalsvoël [Afrikaans]; Arendbuizerd [Dutch];
Buse féroce [French]; Adlerbussard [German]; Bútio-mouro [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Falconiformes
> Family: Accipitridae
> Genus: Buteo
Distribution and habitat
Breeds from south-eastern Europe to west-central Asia,
heading south in the non-breeding season to the Sahel, from Senegal to Ethiopia,
Sudan and Kenya. Although there
have been four records in north-eastern and south-western Namibia and one each in
central Botswana, the Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, it is quite possible that
they were misidentified Jackal or
Steppe buzzards. It is most commonly found in
savanna and semi-arid steppes in the period from December-April.
Food
It mainly eats rodents and other small mammals, doing most
of its hunting from a perch.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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