Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
45 - 60 cm
Wingspan: 119 - 155 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Habitat
Inland wetlands. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland seasonally wet / flooded grassland, dry savanna, heavily degraded former forest, arable land. From 300 - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

South-western Colombia to the Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago, and north-eastern Brazil (Pará and Maranhão), then south to eastern Bolivia, northern and central Argentina and central Chile.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) [XC145385]
by Antonio Silveira from Laguna del Diario, Maldonado, Uruguay, Uruguay (call)

Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) [XC82541]
by Antonio Silveira from Banhado do Ma\u00e7arico, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) - 10 files

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