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Gray-Faced Buzzard

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Butastur indicus

It breeds in Manchuria, Korea and Japan and winters in Southeast Asia. It is a bird of open land and eats lizards, small mammals and large insects. The adult has a grey head, breast and neck, a white throat, black moustaches and mesial stripes, and brown back and upperwings (Wikipedia, general species account). It is typically 41–46 cm (16–18 in) in length, making it a small-sized raptor. It breeds in Manchuria, Korea and Japan. (Wikipedia, general species account).

The grey-faced buzzard is an Asian bird of prey, typically 41–46 cm long, making it a small raptor. The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey. Gmelin based his account on the "Javan hawk" that had been described in 1781 by John Latham from a specimen in the Leverian collection that had been obtained in February 1780 at Princes Island off the westernmost cape of Java during Captain Cook's last voyage. (Wikipedia, general species account).

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