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English Montagu's Harrier
Scientific (Circus pygargus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Accipitridae
Family (English) Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Other name(s) Busard cendré
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions w Europe and nw Africa to c Asia
Nonbreeding Range Subregions AF, India
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Belgium, Benin,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic, Chad,China,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt, Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany, Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Iran,Iraq,Israel, Italy,Ivory Coast,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho, Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malawi,Maldives,Mali,Malta, Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Niger, Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Rwanda, Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Spain, Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey, Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Wiesenweihe
French Busard cendré
Chinese 乌灰鹞
Japanese ヒメハイイロチュウヒ
Russian Луговой лунь
Spanish Aguilucho cenizo
Portuguese águia-caçadeira
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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)
EU 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)