Common Buzzard

Description:

The common buzzard measures between 40 and 58 cm (16 and 23 in) in length with a 109–136 cm (43–54 in) wingspan and a body mass of 427–1,364 g (0.941–3.007 lb), making it a medium-sized raptor.[2][3] This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) and the only distantly related European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus), which mimics the common buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from northern goshawks[citation needed]. The plumage can vary in Britain from almost pure white to black, but is usually shades of brown, with a pale 'necklace' of feathers.

Habitat:

The buzzard lives mainly in small forest areas with adjoining open countryside, where he studied almost exclusively his food. In the environment of the forest he prefers pastures, meadows, moors and wetlands or shortly held by people vegetation. Broods at altitudes above 1000 meters above sea level are rare. Often buzzards along highways are sitting on piles out to see as they scan these and other ways of hunting. When Nistplatzwahl wane smaller old-growth forest are preferred, rare inside closed forests or narrow border strip between fields or individual trees is settled. Increasing settlements poor tree landscapes were observed on control plots near Potsdam and to the west of Schleswig-Holstein. Also including a high proportion of broods in rows of poplars was found, but also on individual trees and shrubs in small distance of a hundred meters to individual farms. This new colonization were already known before that as often. There are successful broods in close proximity to homes in residential areas.

Notes:

Birds of a professional falconer. Found injured and nursed back to health in his rescue centre.