Butastur indicus

Grey-faced Buzzard is a medium-sized bird of prey with no subspecies.

Grey-faced Buzzard often acts alone and only forms groups during migration. During the day, it hovers over the forest, flies at low altitude, or soars in circles. Sometimes it also perches on the tops of dead trees in swamps and isolated dead branches in open areas, or moves on the ground. It is relatively bold and has a loud voice. Sometimes it flies to towns and villages to hunt. It mainly feeds on small snakes, frogs, lizards, mice, squirrels, hares, foxes, birds and other animal foods, and sometimes eats large insects and animal carcasses. It mainly forages in the morning and evening. The foraging method is mainly to perch on the tops of isolated trees in open areas, staring at the ground with both eyes, and suddenly rush down to pounce on prey when it finds prey. Sometimes it also flies at low altitude to hunt, or wanders back and forth on the ground to find and hunt food.

The breeding season of the Gray-faced Buzzard is from May to July. Nests are built in sparse woodlands near riverbanks in broad-leaved or mixed forests, or in trees in swamp meadows and forest edges in the forests. They are also found nesting in isolated trees at the edge of forest edges. The nests are mostly built on the top branches of trees, 7-15 meters above the ground. The nests are disc-shaped, mainly made of dead branches, with dead grass stems, grass leaves, bark and feathers inside. Each nest lays 3-4 eggs, occasionally as few as 2. The eggs are white with rust or reddish-brown spots.

They appear in large numbers when migrating through Taiwan, China in spring and autumn. When the gray-faced buzzard passes through Taiwan in spring and autumn, the large number of them causes local residents to hunt and resell them for profit, so they face strong pressure.

Listed in the 2012 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Ver3.1 - Least Concern (LC).  

Listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Listed in the second level of the List of Wildlife under National Key Protection in China.

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The Gray-faced Buzzard has no subspecies differentiation. It breeds in eastern Russia, Japan, and North Korea, and winters in India, Myanmar, Indochina, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and New Guinea.
Distributed in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor, and Vietnam.
Migrant bird: Mongolia.
In China, it is distributed in Beijing, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Taiwan. Among them, they are summer migratory birds in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Beijing, Hebei, and Shaanxi, and some are resident birds in Jilin. They are migratory birds in Shandong, Shanghai, Taiwan, Hainan, Sichuan, and other places. They are winter migratory birds in

The upper body is dark brown, and the coverts on the wings are also brown; the tail feathers are grayish brown, which is different from the brown tail feathers of the other two species of buzzards, and there are three wide dark brown horizontal spots on them, which are darker than the tail feathers of the white-eyed buzzard. The horizontal spots are more obvious. The cheeks and ears are gray, the eyes and throat are white, which is more obvious. The throat also has a wide dark brown central vertical stripe, and the chest below is white with dense tan horizontal spots. Its eyes are yellow, unlike those of the white-eyed buzzard. The mouth is black, the base of the mouth and wax film are orange-yellow, the tarsometatarsus and toes are yellow, and the claws have black horns.
The upper body of the young bird is brown, with slender black-brown rachis stripes and brown or brown-white feather edges; the tail feathers are brown with 4-5 dark-brown horizontal spots; the cheeks are brown, wit