Montagu's Harrier

• GeneralIt nests on the ground among the wheat, so the harvest destroys many nests.
• conservaciónIt nests directly on the ground in cereal fields, which leaves its nests extremely vulnerable to farm machinery at harvest.
• It is a raptor that nests on the ground in cereal fields, and the harvest usually comes before the chicks can fly: every year volunteers and farmers locate and fence thousands of nests in Spain to save them.
• Its cycle depends on voles: in outbreak years the species breeds with enormous success, and in lean years many pairs do not even try.
• It migrates to the African Sahel, crossing the Sahara twice a year, a journey of more than five thousand kilometres for a bird weighing little over three hundred grams.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Cereal steppe, dryland crops, wasteland and grassland of Europe and western Asia

Sexual maturity

2 years

Gestation / incubation

29 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

4 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_pygargus