Ateljé Gebbe

Buzzard found dead by trafic 2005-04-13 at Road E4, Ödeshög. Sweden

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What I wonder about are the good criterias for subsp. Buteo buteo vulpinus.

This bird is dark rusty, esp. on underparts, wingcoverts, "pants" and tail. There is a distinguished under wing contrast between coverts and hand feathers.

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1.

Your photo of the dead buzzard is very interesting and very similar to a bird which I found in England on April 10th. I wonder if you have any photographs of the bird's upperparts as our bird has a very orange coloured tail

Thanks for the post

Graham Catley

2.

Hi Gebbe!
I would not call this a vulpinus... type.
Because, head is (esp. unserside too dark), tail is to dark esp. dark subterminal band/trailing edge. Tail should be much lighter with less bandings. Underwing are less contrasting in this bird. It seems to be a contrasting, rather dark Buteo buteo buteo I have seen quite often in Austria and Central Europe.

Anyhow, Buteo b. vulpinus is not even distinguished by mitochondrial DNA, based on work I contributed. See http://www.bird.at/htm/MJR.htm   (PDFfile)


Good Birding!

Martin

www.bird.at
 

3.

Hi Gebbe,

A migrating Steppe Buzzard was claimed in The Netherlands on April 2, 2005.
Also, there seem to have been quite a few claims of very very early Honey
Buzzards in the last weeks of March and the first weeks of April this year, in
Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.

I would be very interested to find out what your Steppe Buzzard turns out to
be. Please keep me informed.

Kind regards,

Bram Aarts
The Netherlands