Wednesday, March 14, 2012

>Circus buffoni (Long-winged Harrier)

Long-winged Harrier


Long-winged Harrier
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Falconiformes (but see there)
Family:Accipitridae
Genus:Circus
Species:C. buffoni
Binomial name
Circus buffoni
(Gmelin, 1788)
The Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, native to South America.
Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowlandgrasslandswamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

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