Grasshopper Buzzard

Butastur rufipennis - Busautour des sauterelles

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Accipitriformes

  • Family
    :

    Accipitridés

  • Genus
    :

    Butastur

  • Species
    :

    rufipennis

Descriptor

Sundevall, 1850

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 44 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 92 à 106 cm.
  • Weight
    : 300 à 408 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Busautour des sauterelles
adult
Busautour des sauterelles
adult

Grasshopper Buzzard (Butastur rufipennis) is a species of bird in the Accipitridae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Busautour des sauterelles,
  • Busardo langostero,
  • bútio-dos-gafanhotos,
  • Heuschreckenbussard,
  • sáskaölyv,
  • Sprinkhaanbuizerd,
  • Poiana grillaia,
  • gräshoppsvråk,
  • Gresshoppevåk,
  • saryč africký,
  • jestřábec sarančí,
  • Græshoppevåge,
  • heinäsirkkahaukka,
  • Rooivlerkjakkalsvoël,
  • aligot llagoster,
  • myszołap rdzawoskrzydły,
  • Саранчовый канюк,
  • アフリカサシバ,
  • 蝗鵟鹰,
  • 蝗鵟鷹,

Voice song and cries

Busautour des sauterelles
adult

Habitat

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Wetlands (inland) : Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 16-08-2011
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