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Buteo Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Photo by sttweets
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Habitat:

Common in the Netherlands

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Common Buzzard

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Comments (12)
LarsKorb
I love Buzzards - one of the most handsome birds of prey in my opinion.
HeatherMiller
Hi Sttweets, It's a beautiful bird & nice spotting. Their eyes look so mesmerizing.
sttweets
Hi Heather, I don´t think it flies between the continents, it´s to small for such distances I guess. I´ll dig into the ´buzzard´ naming thing once again since there is a lot of misunderstanding about it. However, I don´t have the details about the US and EU species on top of mind.
HeatherMiller
I saw the picture and the name Buzzard and thought I was mistaken...thank you all for the clarification. It is a beautiful bird, whatever it is called. Can it fly between the continents? Is its range that large? Or is it the name buzzard that crossed the ocean.
sttweets
Thanks @lori.tas & @michaeladamsparks. It is what we call a "European Buzzard" which would than be the Buteo Buzzard or Buzzard hawk I guess. Thanks for commenting. Sebastiaan
michaeladamsparks
Lori, I was about to mention that. It can definitely be confusing for a U.S. birder abroad (or, I'm sure, a European in the U.S.)!
lori.tas
You really captured the intensity of its gaze. Well done. In the US 'Buzzard' is used colloquially to mean vulture. Whereas it really means the largest of the hawks (those being the Buteo hawks, aka Buzzard hawks).

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