Butastur
Butastur is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.
Butastur | |
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in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Subfamily: | Buteoninae |
Genus: | Butastur Hodgson, 1843 |
Type species | |
Circus teesa Franklin, 1831 |
Taxonomy and species
The genus Butastur was introduced in 1843 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the white-eyed buzzard as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is a portmanteau of the genus Buteo introduced by Bernard Germain de Lacépède for the buzzards and Astur introduced by Lacépède for the goshawks.[3] The genus now contains four species.[4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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![]() | B. liventer | Rufous-winged buzzard | southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia. |
![]() | B. rufipennis | Grasshopper buzzard | Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia, migrating south to Sierra Leone, Cameroon, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and northern Tanzania |
![]() | B. teesa | White-eyed buzzard | Iran, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar |
![]() | B. indicus | Grey-faced buzzard | Russia, North China, Korea, Japan, and Philippines |
References
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1843). "Catalogue of Nepâlese birds presented to the Asiatic Society, duly named and classified by the donor, Mr. Hodgson". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 12, Part 1 (136): 301–313 [311].
- Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 349.
- Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
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