- Mountain Buzzard
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Mountain Buzzard 
In Ethiopia Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Falconiformes
(or Accipitriformes, q.v.)Family: Accipitridae Genus: Buteo Species: B. oreophilus Binomial name Buteo oreophilus
Hartert and Neumann, 1914The Mountain Buzzard (Buteo oreophilus) is a bird of prey that lives in montane forests in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and extreme eastern DR Congo) and forests and plantations in South Africa. The latter population is sometimes considered a separate species, the Forest Buzzard (B. trizonatus).[2]
At 45–50 cm, it is smaller than the Steppe Buzzard and darker brown, with less rufous above.
There are two recognized subspecies:[3]
- Buteo oreophilus oreophilus
- Buteo oreophilus trizonatus
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2009). "Buteo oreophilus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/144479. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ^ Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan, 2003, Struik Publishers, ISBN 1-86872-857-9
- ^ "The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Version 6.5" (xls). Cornell University Press. 2010. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
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