Monday, February 27, 2012

>Butastur rufipennis (Grasshopper Buzzard)

Grasshopper Buzzard


Grasshopper Buzzard
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
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.

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