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Buteo

Index Buteo

Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings. [1]

99 relations: Accipiter, Alexander Wetmore, Americas, Anseriformes, Archer's buzzard, Augur buzzard, Bat, Beetle, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Biogeography, Bird of prey, Broad-winged hawk, Buteo sanya, Buteogallus, Buzzard, Cape Verde buzzard, Carl Linnaeus, Carrion, Central America, Chipmunk, Columbidae, Common buzzard, Crane hawk, Cricket, Dragonfly, Early Pleistocene, Eastern buzzard, Etymology, Eurasia, Evolution, Ferruginous hawk, Fish, Forest buzzard, Fossil, Frog, Galapagos hawk, Galliformes, Genus, Geobios, Geranoaetus, Gerbil, Gray hawk, Gray-lined hawk, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Hare, Hawaiian hawk, Hawk, Helm Identification Guides, Himalayan buzzard, Ibiza, ..., Insect, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Invertebrate, Jackal buzzard, Latin, Lizard, Long-legged buzzard, Madagascar buzzard, Mammal, Marmot, Mole (animal), Mountain buzzard, North America, Northern Hemisphere, Oligocene, Osteology, Passerine, Piacenzian, Pika, Rabbit, Red-necked buzzard, Red-shouldered hawk, Red-tailed hawk, Ridgway's hawk, Roadside hawk, Rodent, Rough-legged buzzard, Rufous-tailed hawk, Salamander, Short-tailed hawk, Shrew, Snake, Socotra buzzard, South America, Species, Squirrel, Swainson's hawk, Tautonym, The Auk, The Peregrine Fund, Ulna, Upland buzzard, Vole, Weasel, White-rumped hawk, White-tailed hawk, White-throated hawk, Woodpecker, Zone-tailed hawk. Expand index (49 more) »

Accipiter

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

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Alexander Wetmore

Frank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 – December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anseriformes

Anseriformes is an order of birds that comprise about 180 living species in three families: Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.

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Archer's buzzard

The Archer's buzzard (Buteo archeri) is a 50–55 cm long African bird of prey.

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Augur buzzard

The augur buzzard (Buteo augur) is a 55–60 cm long African bird of prey.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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Beetle

Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.

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Bernard Germain de Lacépède

Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Bird of prey

A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.

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Broad-winged hawk

The broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) is a small hawk of the genus Buteo.

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Buteo sanya

Buteo sanya is an extinct species of Buteo that went extinct in the Late Pleistocene epoch.

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Buteogallus

Buteogallus is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Buzzard

Buzzard is the common name of several species of bird of prey.

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Cape Verde buzzard

The Cape Verde buzzard (Buteo bannermani) is a medium to large bird of prey that is sometimes considered a subspecies of the widespread common buzzard (Buteo buteo).

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carrion

Carrion (from Latin caro, meaning "meat") is the decaying flesh of a dead animal.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Chipmunk

Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of the family Sciuridae.

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Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.

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Common buzzard

The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia.

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Crane hawk

The crane hawk (Geranospiza caerulescens) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Dragonfly

A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera (from Greek ἄνισος anisos, "uneven" and πτερόν pteron, "wing", because the hindwing is broader than the forewing).

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Early Pleistocene

The Early Pleistocene (also known as the Lower Pleistocene) is a subepoch in the international geologic timescale or a subseries in chronostratigraphy, being the earliest or lowest subdivision of the Quaternary period/system and Pleistocene epoch/series.

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Eastern buzzard

The Eastern buzzard or Japanese buzzard (Buteo japonicus) is a medium to large bird of prey that is sometimes considered a subspecies of the widespread common buzzard (Buteo buteo).

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Etymology

EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".

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Eurasia

Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Ferruginous hawk

The ferruginous hawk (ferruginous.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Forest buzzard

The forest buzzard (Buteo trizonatus), is a species of bird of prey found in Africa, though some authorities have placed it as a subspecies of another species, the mountain buzzard, Buto oreophilus.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).

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Galapagos hawk

The Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) is a large hawk endemic to most of the Galapagos Islands.

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Galliformes

Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Geobios

Geobios is an academic journal published bimonthly by the publishing house Elsevier.

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Geranoaetus

Geranoaetus is a genus of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.

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Gerbil

A gerbil is a small mammal of the subfamily Gerbillinae in the order Rodentia.

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Gray hawk

The gray hawk (Buteo plagiatus) or Mexican goshawk is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges.

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Gray-lined hawk

The gray-lined hawk (Buteo nitidus) is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges.

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Handbook of the Birds of the World

The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Hawaiian hawk

The Hawaiian hawk or io (Buteo solitarius) is a raptor of the Buteo genus endemic to Hawaiokinai, currently restricted to the Big Island.

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Hawk

Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Helm Identification Guides

The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.

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Himalayan buzzard

The Himalayan buzzard (Buteo refectus) is a medium to large bird of prey that is sometimes considered a subspecies of the widespread common buzzard (Buteo buteo).

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Ibiza

Ibiza (Eivissa) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the east coast of Spain.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Jackal buzzard

The jackal buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus) is a 45–55 cm long African bird of prey.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Long-legged buzzard

The long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus) is a bird of prey in the genus Buteo.

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Madagascar buzzard

The Madagascar buzzard (Buteo brachypterus) is a bird of prey which is endemic to Madagascar.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Marmot

Marmots are large squirrels in the genus Marmota, with 15 species.

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Mole (animal)

Moles are small mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle (i.e., fossorial).

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Mountain buzzard

The mountain buzzard (Buteo oreophilus) is a bird of prey that lives in montane forests in East Africa, it and the forest buzzard (Buteo trizonatus) of southern Africa were, until recently, considered to be a single species.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Osteology

Osteology is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Piacenzian

The Piacenzian is in the international geologic time scale the upper stage or latest age of the Pliocene.

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Pika

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika).

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Red-necked buzzard

The red-necked buzzard (Buteo auguralis), also known as the African red-tailed buzzard, is a species of buzzard in the family Accipitridae which is found in western and northern central Africa.

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Red-shouldered hawk

The red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk.

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Red-tailed hawk

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies.

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Ridgway's hawk

Ridgway's hawk (Buteo ridgwayi) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, native to the island of Hispaniola.

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Roadside hawk

The roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris) is a relatively small bird of prey found in the Americas.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Rough-legged buzzard

The rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus), also called the rough-legged hawk, is a medium-large bird of prey.

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Rufous-tailed hawk

The Rufous-tailed hawk (Buteo ventralis) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Salamander

Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.

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Short-tailed hawk

The short-tailed hawk (Buteo brachyurus) is an American bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles and Old World vultures.

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Shrew

A shrew (family Soricidae) is a small mole-like mammal classified in the order Eulipotyphla.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Socotra buzzard

The Socotra buzzard (Buteo socotraensis) is a medium to large bird of prey that is sometimes considered a subspecies of the widespread common buzzard (Buteo buteo).

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Squirrel

Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents.

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Swainson's hawk

Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni), is a large Buteo hawk of the Falconiformes, sometimes separated in the Accipitriformes like its relatives.

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Tautonym

A tautonym is a scientific name of a species in which both parts of the name have the same spelling, for example Rattus rattus.

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The Auk

The Auk: Ornithological Advances is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).

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The Peregrine Fund

The Peregrine Fund is a non-profit organization founded in 1970 that conserves threatened and endangered birds of prey worldwide.

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Ulna

The ulna is a long bone found in the forearm that stretches from the elbow to the smallest finger, and when in anatomical position, is found on the medial side of the forearm.

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Upland buzzard

The upland buzzard (Buteo hemilasius) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Vole

A vole is a small rodent.

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Weasel

A weasel is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.

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White-rumped hawk

The white-rumped hawk (Parabuteo leucorrhous) is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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White-tailed hawk

The white-tailed hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus) is a large bird of prey species found in tropical or subtropical environments across the Americas.

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White-throated hawk

The white-throated hawk (Buteo albigula) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which includes the eagles, hawks and Old World vultures.

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Woodpecker

Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers.

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Zone-tailed hawk

The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteo

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