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Scientific name

Buteo buteo

English name

common buzzard

Dutch name

buizerd

German name

Mäusebussard

French name

buse variable

Spanish name

busardo ratonero

Esperanto name

komuna buteo

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Song

Call

[sound:Buizerd call.mp3]

Alarm call

Flight call

Courting call

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Aves

Order Accipitriformes

Family Accipitridae

Genus Buteo

Frequency order

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Accipitrine species:

common buzzard/buizerd: variable colors, ranges from very dark to very light, broad wings, off-white tail with dense gray bands, slightly U-shaped light band on chest;

European honey buzzard/wespendief: at distance similar to common buzzard/buizerd, but slightly bigger and longer wings, thin neck, head forward in flight, variable colors, no light band on chest;

white-tailed eagle/zeearend: very large, with long, wide wings, short wedge-shaped tail with white at the end, brown with a lighter, yellow-brown head and throat, yellow beak;

northern goshawk/havik: female: significantly larger, slate-colored back; male: smaller, blue-gray back; both: white underside with fine gray bands, white brow line across dark top of head and ear region;

Eurasian sparrowhawk/sperwer: much smaller than northern goshawk/havik; female: larger, not as large as male northern goshawk/havik, yet similar, but with narrow base of tail, more rectangular end of tail, bigger head, shorter neck, slimmer body; female also slate-colored back, brown-gray bands on white underside; male: slate-colored back sometimes a bit bluish, rust-colored cheeks, rust-colored bands on light underside.

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