Least ConcernCommon Buzzard
Buteo buteo
45 countries244 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 2 species of buzzard, in the family Accipitridae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 66 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Its characteristic call, a plaintive mew, sounds like a cat.
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It feeds mainly on small rodents such as voles, supplemented with birds, reptiles and carrion.
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It lives in woodland and open country of Europe and western Asia.
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Its scream is the one the cinema dubs over the cry of almost any bird of prey, eagles included.
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Its scream is the sound of the bald eagle in films: the Hollywood studios decided that the bald eagle's real call, a weak, high-pitched chirp, was not imposing enough, and ever since they have dubbed eagles with this hawk's cry.
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A bird called Pale Male nested for more than two decades on the ledge of a building on Fifth Avenue in New York, opposite Central Park, and became a local celebrity.
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