Long-legged Buzzard
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Long-legged Buzzard | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Ciconiiformes | familia = Accipitridae | genus = Buteo | species = B. rufinus | binomial = Buteo rufinus | binomial_authority = (Cretzschmar, 1829) }}
The Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus) prefers the dry open plains of Turkey, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary and feeds mostly on small rodents, although it will also take lizards, snakes, small birds and large insects.
It is similar in appearance to the Buzzard (Buteo buteo), but smaller in size (approximate length, 24"). Open, uncultivated areas, with high bushes, trees, cliffs or hillocks are favoured as nesting areas.
The breeding population in Greece is ca. 60 pairs.
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