Butastur

Butastur is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

Butastur
in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
B. liventerRufous-winged buzzardsouthern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia.
B. rufipennisGrasshopper buzzardSenegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia, migrating south to Sierra Leone, Cameroon, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and northern Tanzania
B. teesaWhite-eyed buzzardIran, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar
B. indicusGrey-faced buzzardRussia, North China, Korea, Japan, and Philippines

References

  1. 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].
  2. 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.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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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