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are white with brown barring. The upper tail is brown, washed with reddish-brown and the tail has some narrow dark brown bands with a broad dark brown subterminal band while the undertail bands can be indistinct. The body length is 41–48 cm (16–19 in) and the wingspan is 102–117 cm
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The forest buzzard was formerly considered threatened in South Africa but the increase in exotic plantations and the species adaptation to breed in those plantations has allowed the population to increase. It is therefore treated as Near
Threatened by the
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The forest buzzard hunts along the edge of or in the forest, where it is a sit and wait predator which pounces on prey from a perch. It has been recorded as preying on small mammals, birds up to the size of a
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in a variety of habitats and winters widely in eastern and southern Africa, with a few non-breeding birds remaining in southern Africa over the northern summer.
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The forest buzzard is very similar to the abundant summer migrant
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350:The forest buzzard forms part of a
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1411:Birds described in 1957
249:The forest buzzard is
1076:Rufous-winged buzzard
551:Biodiversity Explorer
752:Rough-legged buzzard
516:Raptors of the World
226:Buteo buteo vulpinus
1081:Grasshopper buzzard
958:Black-collared hawk
792:White-throated hawk
762:Red-shouldered hawk
747:Long-legged buzzard
472:2007Ostri..78..101C
374:Conservation status
354:which includes the
339:Afrocarpus falcatus
40:Conservation status
1091:Grey-faced buzzard
1086:White-eyed buzzard
1008:Semiplumbeous hawk
1003:Slate-colored hawk
842:Red-necked buzzard
832:Madagascar buzzard
817:Rufous-tailed hawk
732:Cape Verde buzzard
587:on 27 October 2016
581:The Peregrine Fund
573:"Mountain Buzzard
360:Madagascar buzzard
269:south through the
161:B. trizonatus
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1355:Open Tree of Life
1155:Taxon identifiers
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983:White-necked hawk
978:White-browed hawk
925:Common black hawk
900:White-rumped hawk
787:Short-tailed hawk
782:White-rumped hawk
767:Broad-winged hawk
727:Himalayan buzzard
697:White-tailed hawk
525:978-0-7136-8026-3
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988:Black-faced hawk
935:Great black hawk
930:Cuban black hawk
920:Rufous crab hawk
852:Archer's buzzard
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807:Zone-tailed hawk
757:Ferruginous hawk
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1187:Wikispecies
1111:Chaco eagle
998:Barred hawk
911:Buteogallus
678:Geranoaetus
433:20 November
271:Drakensberg
217:Description
1390:Categories
1368:Xeno-canto
1048:Kaupifalco
1033:White hawk
1019:Pseudastur
950:Busarellus
646:Buteoninae
591:27 October
557:26 October
493:2016-10-27
386:References
368:Palearctic
302:eucalyptus
290:Mpumalanga
886:Parabuteo
802:Gray hawk
642:Subfamily
323:francolin
155:Species:
93:Kingdom:
87:Eukaryota
1334:22735392
1282:10408811
1220:22735392
1215:BirdLife
1178:Q7885209
1172:Wikidata
1067:Butastur
867:Rupornis
358:and the
346:Taxonomy
263:Eswatini
186:Rudebeck
133:Family:
107:Chordata
103:Phylum:
97:Animalia
83:Domain:
60:IUCN 3.1
1295:5844407
1269:moubuz3
1230:moubuz3
1202:Avibase
1138:Buzzard
667:Species
468:Bibcode
460:Ostrich
296:Habitat
277:to the
259:Lesotho
251:endemic
143:Genus:
123:Order:
113:Class:
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312:Habits
188:, 1957
1401:Buteo
1264:eBird
1243:5X5TW
1227:BOW:
1133:Eagle
708:Buteo
659:Genus
487:(PDF)
456:(PDF)
332:Usnea
321:or a
306:pines
148:Buteo
1329:IUCN
1316:ITIS
1290:GBIF
593:2016
559:2016
520:ISBN
435:2021
418:2017
381:IUCN
304:and
261:and
195:The
117:Aves
1277:EoL
1251:CMS
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