GEUMGANG ECOLOGY TOURIST INFORMATION SYSTEM

The Seasonal Birds

Geumgang Birdwatch Observatory

Movement of the Seasonal Birds

The Upper Part of the Estuary Bank

The Lower Part of the Estuary Bank

[Common buzzard] Buteo buteo japonicus (TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL)

Features: The brow and the top of the head, and the back head of males with winter plumage are brown, and each feather has the yellowish brown edges. The color of the shoulder feathers is light, and the inner and outer valve has white spots. The edge of feathers a little wide and white. The breast is yellowish brown, and each feather has a wide wedge-shaped or yellowish brown irregular dappled axis unit. The stomach is yellowish brown and has yellowish brown spot horizontally except the lower part. The lower stomach and the lower feathers covering tail are yellowish brown. The tail is angular, and the number of the tail feathers is 12. The molting of wing feathers and tail feathers is in between July and September. It is difficult to distinguish the female feathers from male feathers.
Mode of life: They are permanent residents. They seem to be similar to black kites when they fly, but they are different in that the color of their body is lighter and the wing is wider as well as their tail is short and wide and the end of it is round.
Call: They make a prolonged sound like "bee" or "heeyo" and they also cry when they soar up.
Breeding place: They live in a thicket of assorted trees and they make their nest in a thick branch of a tree.
Breeding time: They lay eggs from May till June. The number of eggs of the same litter is 2-3. The eggs are light green or blue gray with large reddish brown and light purple gray spots. The egg weighs 33.7-57 grams. They lay eggs once per 4-6 days, and the birds start brooding over eggs for hatching when they have one or two.
Taste: They live on the rodents and insectivora of Mammalia and birds, and they also have the Anura of Amphibia, the snakes of the reptiles, carabidae, cicada, and Locustidae.