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English Long-legged Buzzard
Scientific (Buteo rufinus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Accipitridae
Family (English) Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions PAL, AF
Breeding Range Subregions sw, sc
Nonbreeding Range Subregions c AF
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Belarus,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,China,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark, Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Finland,Gambia,Georgia,Ghana,Greece, Guinea,Hungary,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan,Lebanon,Libya,Macedonia,Mali,Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco, Myanmar,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Poland, Portugal,Romania,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovenia,Somalia,South Sudan, Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Tunisia,Turkey, Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,Uzbekistan,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
rufinus c Europe to c Asia
cirtensis Mauritania to Egypt and the Arabian Pen.
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Cretzschmar, 1829)
German Adlerbussard
French Buse féroce
Chinese 棕尾鵟
Japanese ニシオオノスリ
Russian Курганник
Spanish Busardo moro
Portuguese bútio-mourisco
Bird Data App text Highly variable in color; comes in dark, red and pale morphs. Favors open country at all altitudes.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)