Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos) - HBW 2, p. 140
French: Busard tchoug
German: Elsterweihe
Spanish: Aguilucho Pío
Taxonomy: Falco melanoleucos Pennant, 1769, Sri Lanka.
Monotypic.
Distribution: S Siberia (L Baikal) and Mongolia E to Amurland, Manchuria and N Korea; has bred in N Burma and NE India (Assam). Winters from India and Sri Lanka to S China, Borneo and Philippines.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male flying, capturing a prey in the reed beds and flying away. Locality Razdolnaya River Estuary, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2009 1 year ago 34 sec 3 -
A male soaring Locality Assam, India (Monotypic species)
John Gregory 31 March 2007 4 years ago 16 sec 3 -
A male flying over vegetation. Locality Wat Roluos grasslands, Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 10 March 2011 23 weeks ago 38 sec 2.7 -
Two female plumaged individuals looking for food in reedbeds. Locality Razdolnaya River Estuary, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 June 2009 1 year ago 50 sec 2.5
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A male hunting a checkered keelback snake.
Locality Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India
Prabhakar Manjunath 19 March 2009 2 years ago 4.7
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