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  BBC - Nature Wildfacts - Augur buzzard
In most of its range the Augur buzzard is by far the commonest and most obvious buzzard.
An augur buzzard is easily recognised by its slate-grey upperparts, chestnut red tail and greyish-white and fl barring on the secondaries.
Augur buzzards perch on dead or live trees, and also like to watch for prey from electricity pylons or telegraph posts along roadsides.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3102.shtml   (242 words)

  
 Oregon Zoo Animals: Augur Buzzard
The immature Augur Buzzard is white with streaked or blotched flish-brown feathers with a somewhat barred tail.
Augur Buzzards either pounce from a rock or tree perch or sometimes stoop from s hovering, soaring or a gliding flight.
The Augur Buzzard is one of the few birds of prey that have the ability to hang motionless in the air, riding a strong wind slicing off a hillcrest.
www.oregonzoo.org /Cards/BirdsOfPrey/augurbuzzard.htm   (624 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
augur, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Southern Sudan westwards to the eastern Congo.
There is a melanistic form of Augur Buzzard, all fl, except for grey and fl-barred flight feathers and a chestnut tail.
Archer's Buzzard in Somalia, is slightly smaller than the other forms, has more chestnut in the feathers of the upperparts, and in adult plumage has the throat white with fl on the sides, with the rest of the under side rich chestnut.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Jackal_Buzzard   (525 words)

  
 » Augur Buzzard (Buteo augur, family: Accipitridae)
The Augur Buzzard (Latin name Buteo augur) is described in Roberts Birds of Southern Africa, 7th Edition.
The Augur Buzzard is neither Endemic or near Endemic to the Kruger National Park.
The Augur Buzzard is monogamous unless its mate dies.
www.thekruger.com /buteoaugur   (623 words)

  
 Buzzard
A buzzard is a type of bird of prey, in any of several different but related senses:
In the Old World, members of this genus are named as "buzzards", but "hawk" is more common in North America.
The honey-buzzards, genus Pernis, superficially resemble Buteo buzzards, hence the name, but are specialist feeders on wasp nests and larvae.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bu/Buzzard.html   (107 words)

  
 Resources on Augur Buzzard academic institutions
ADW: Buteo augur: Classification: Buteo augur (Augur buzzard).
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www.mongabay.org /conservation/Augur_Buzzard.htm   (708 words)

  
 Buzzards
In parts of the United States where they are considered pest, particularly in rural areas, a derogatory term for certain birds of prey, such as the Chickenhawk (a common colloquial name referring to both the Red-tailed Hawk and the Cooper's Hawk), or the Duck hawk (known elsewhere as the Peregrine Falcon).
In the U.S., the term "buzzard" is never used to refer to birds of prey, like hawks, eagles, falcons, and owls, outside of this context.
White-eyed Buzzard (Butastur teesa): The White-eyed Buzzard is a medium sized hawk found in South Asia.
www.avianweb.com /buzzards.html   (313 words)

  
 Luzonica, Birds of the World: Augur Buzzard
Buteo rufofuscus is the Jackal Buzzard, which has similar coloring to the Augur Buzzard (and was for a time thought to simply be a color variation) but has a large chestnut-red area on it's breast instead of white or gray coloring.
Buzzards that spend a lot of time soaring, and that catch prey mostly on the ground are frequently colored light underneath and dark on top.
Augur Buzzards, and all other birds of prey are illegal to possess in any form in California and many other states.
luzonica.com /augur.htm   (654 words)

  
 UNEP-WCMC Species Database Buteo augur
Buteo archeri, Buteo jakal archeri, Buteo rufofuscus augur, Falco augur
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www.unep-wcmc.org /isdb/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?Genus=Buteo&species=augur&source=animals   (50 words)

  
 www.hawktalk.org
In the past, when I told someone that "Artemis" was an Augur Buzzard, the man said, "Well, she don't look like no buzzard.
Strikingly beautiful, the Augur Buzzard's range extends northwards from the Limpopo River (in Africa), and from central Namibia, and continues through East Africa to Ethiopia.
Augur Buzzards are one of the few sexually dimorphic raptors (meaning color difference between the sexes).
www.hawktalk.org /html/hawks-page.htm   (996 words)

  
 IngentaConnect A comparative study of the breeding behaviour of the Augur Buzzar...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A comparative study of the breeding behaviour of the Augur Buzzard Buteo augur was made in two contrasting areas on the southern side of Lake Naivasha, Kenya.
Augur Buzzard pairs in the lake environs spent more time caring for chicks than their counterparts in Hell's Gate.
Augur Buzzards in Hell's Gate spent significantly more time interacting with conspecifics and other species compared to those in the lake environs.
www.ingentaconnect.com /content/nisc/ostrich/2004/00000075/F0020001/art00003;jsessionid=2hbbvlyeet4j8.victoria   (339 words)

  
 Birdchick Blog: Holiday Hawk?
Maybe an auger buzzard, but the brest area is all white and no speckles.......hummmmmmm....ongoing investigation.
Buteo is a genus of raptors that includes red-tailed hawks in North America and common buzzards in Europe.
yes, it is an auger buzzard -- its the most commonly used hawk in the film industry -- because we are not allowed to use native birds like red tails or even ravens, we are forced to import them from abroad and pass them off as local.
www.birdchick.com /2006/11/holiday-hawk.html   (477 words)

  
 Resources on Augur Buzzard academic institutions
BENE nov96 discussion:: The Augur Buzzard Project (1/2): The Augur Buzzard Project (1/2).
ADW: Buteo augur: Classification: Buteo augur (Augur buzzard).
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mongabay.org /conservation/Augur_Buzzard.htm   (708 words)

  
 Archived conservation news articles on Augur Buzzard
And the trained bird that flies around Qwest Field before football games is actually an augur hawk or augur buzzard, native to East Africa.
There would be no more demonstrations of Tuscany, the augur buzzard, eating a rat.
The audience will meet live animals such as a tawny owl, a screech owl, a vulture, an augur buzzard or red-tailed hawk, a Bateluer eagle, a tawny eagle, a...
conservation.mongabay.com /news/Augur_Buzzard.htm   (238 words)

  
 One Wing
This common buzzard is on permanent loan from The World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis.
This male augur buzzard came to us from The World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis, the first facility in the world to successfully bred this species.
The first clutch arrived in 1998 and there are approximately 21 augur buzzards in captivity.
www.hawkcreek.org /hawks.htm   (799 words)

  
 Charliesbirdblog: Jackal Buzzard, South Africa
The Jackal Buzzard is an endemic to south-west Africa, and closely related to the similar and more northerly Augur Buzzard.
It prefers mountainous and hilly terrain, with the majority of nests being built on cliffs.
Oh, please note that views and opinions expressed in this blog are the author's own and are not to be considered in any way representative of the mandate or policies of Birds Korea or of any other organisation or individual.
www.charliesbirdblog.com /~charlie/jackalbuzzard/jackalbuzzard.html   (160 words)

  
 Buteo brachypterus - Madagascar Buzzard
ADW: Buteo brachypterus: Classification -- Buteo brachypterus (Madagascar buzzard).
The birds of prey site of Robert Goedegebuur -- 75, Buteo augur, Augur Buzzard, 1.
Madagascar Buzzard - Buteo brachypterus -- Madagascar Buzzard [Buteo brachypterus ].
www.wildmadagascar.org /wildlife/species/birds/Buteo_brachypterus.html   (144 words)

  
 ethiopia birdwatching
Lammergeyers have been known to fly as high as 25,000 feet in the Himalayas, and they have been clocked at 79.5 miles per hour flying speed.
The Augur Buzzard is another species commonly seen in the national park.
Adults are characterized by dark gray or almost fl upper parts and a bright chestnut-colored tail.
ethiopiatourandtravel.com /_wsn/page9.html   (1791 words)

  
 TrekNature | Augur Buzzard Photo
This buzzard lives in several parts of East-Africa and SW-Africa where open and lightly wooded uplands are with outcrops and escarpments.
It's scanned from a slide and with P.S. I've tried to make the best out of it.
Great scan from a slide showing a species of buzzard new to me.
www.treknature.com /gallery/Africa/Tanzania/photo85004.htm   (121 words)

  
 Updates
This is a tern with white head, eye with narrow fl semi-circle at front, and with mouth-lining.
The 2 birds on Burundi 25.07.77 African animals 11f are Verreaux's Eagle, not Verreaux's Eagle and Augur Buzzard.
On a stamp in a Liberia 15.09.2001 Birds of Africa sheet the inscription is Augur Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus.
www.birdtheme.org /updates.html   (1312 words)

  
 falconrybirds.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Comments: Are thought to be a different species than the Javal Buzzard (Buteo rufofusus), which is found in the southern areas of Africa.
Female augur buzzard, note the short red tail -- these are very arial birds, and have a tail similar to the bateleur eagles, which are also very arial
Pair of augur buzzards by the nest box, focusing on the male
www.falconrybirds.com /Pages/birds-augar.shtml   (203 words)

  
 David Maritz - Travel & Essay
The sun had dipped below the horizon and the sky was filtered ochre red, a by-product of the fine dust from the Kalahari deserts hundreds of miles to the west.
Ron and I had the spotting scope trained on a white smudge on the cliff facing us; 'the mutes below an Augur Buzzard's nest' explained Ron.
By this time we had already quaffed the 2 beers allocated for the traditional African 'Sun Downer'.
www.davidmaritz.com /stories/batoka/batoka1.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Birds of Prey
Note: There is a sequence of fifteen photographs of a Madagascar Buzzard fighting with a Pied Crow in the Madagascar Galleries.
This Augur Buzzard was in Nairobi National Park.
Note all the white on the wings and tail, that shows it is immature.
www.sagarmatha.com /galleries/themes/nr.html   (1238 words)

  
 Bird Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Selda, Echo, Buzz - Acquired by NEI in 1997 at under a year old.
Oswald - On January 10, 2002 a new baby Augur Buzzard hatched at NEI.
It is pictured above at 16 days old and 6 weeks old.
www.naturalencounters.com /abby1c.html   (2886 words)

  
 Ratonero Augur
DISTRIBUCIÓN: El Ratonero Augur (Buteo augur) es natural del África.
Al Ratonero Augur en inglés se le conoce por “Augur Buzzard”.
Más información en el Ratonero Augur (Buteo augur):
www.damisela.com /zoo/ave/otros/falcon/accipitridae/accipitrinae/buteo/augur/index.htm   (110 words)

  
 Augur Buzzard - Buteo augur
Click here to go to the forums home page and find out more.
Click here to view more images of the Augur Buzzard
Its diet consists mainly of lizards, snakes, rodents and insects as well as carrion.
www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=360   (130 words)

  
 Amoroso's: Special Events
You'll gasp as Ruko, a majestic African fish eagle, takes wing from the Channel 6 Zooballoon and dives almost 400 feet to the crowd below.
Ruppell's Griffin vulture, African augur buzzard, tawny eagle, trumpeter hornbill, African grey parrot and southern ground hornbill are just a few of the many species you'll encounter.
In this one of a kind experience, you'll learn all about the amazing things birds do and why they do them.
www.amorosobaking.com /news/se_event02.html   (161 words)

  
 Mangoverde World Bird Guide Photo Page: Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
Mangoverde World Bird Guide Photo Page: Augur Buzzard Buteo augur
Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Hawks, Eagles and Kites :: Augur Buzzard :: Photo Page
Please select "Mangoverde World Bird Guide" to view the entire bird site.
www.mangoverde.com /birdsound/picpages/pic30-197-1.html   (77 words)

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