Grasshopper Buzzard
| Grasshopper Buzzard | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes (or Accipitriformes, q.v.) |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Butastur |
| Species: | B. rufipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Butastur rufipennis (Sundevall, 1851) | |
| Synonyms | |
Buteo rufipennis
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The Grasshopper Buzzard (Butastur rufipennis) is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridaefamily. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad,Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia,Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.
