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It’s a raptor that has a head that looks like a pigeon.
The Crested Honey Buzzards also known as the Oriental Honey Buzzard feeds on bee and wasps’ larvae. It does from time to time consume animals such as little frogs and other small reptiles.
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Ooi Beng Yean / MNS |
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© OBY 2/2003 |
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The Grey-faced Buzzard is a handsome buzzard with a strong white eyebrow. It has a long wing, which often reaches the tail tip when it is perched.
This bird breeds in far eastern Russia, northern China, Korea and Japan. It travels all the way down to the Indonesian Archipelago, sometimes reaching New Guinea.
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The Black Baza normally consumes beetles but also consumes other animals such as bats, small mammals, lizards, other birds and tree frogs. Although it occasionally catches small birds, they are not generally alarmed by its presence. The Black Bazas hunt at sunrise and sunset. They roosts in large groups of up to twenty-five, in a tight mass in the centre of a tree.
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MNS |
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MNS
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The Japanese Sparrowhawk is the smallest of the Accipiters (small raptors). It is very agile though it stands only about 12 inches high.
It hunts other birds such as doves & sparrows. It has been spotted lingering about oilrigs to hunt for swallows.
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Uniform dark slaty grey upperparts together with whitish underparts with orange suffusion on breast distinctive. Lacks dark mesial stripe or barrings on underparts. Central tail feathers usually uniform dark slaty-grey. In underwing flight pattern, shows pale unmarked wing and underparts which contrast with blackish wingtips. Central tail feathers show faint dark bands. Some sexual differentiation.
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