Western Honey Buzzard – Pernis apivorus
I think Western Honey Buzzard – Pernis apivorus is not very much known. There are not many information that I get from the internet about this species.
Based on a bood that I had,it just mention that the western honey buzzard reaches about the size of the Eurasian Buzzard. The author also mention that the bird can be well distinguished in flight by the small, outstreched head and the tail pattern showing a wide gap between the dard terminal band and another bar at the tail base.
The distribution of Western Honey Buzzard – Pernis apivorus will include almost all over Europe and western Siberia. Western Honey Buzzard – Pernis apivorus will prefer a mosaic of woodland with open areas.
Western Honey Buzzard – Pernis apivorus will build a ground nest which are made y the scraping of the legs and bill.
There are only very fews information from the internet that I manage to get about this species. One of them is from
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http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Pernis_apivorus.htm.
It is best distinguished from the Common Buzzard by rather subtle differences in shape. The head is longer and narrower, the tail longer and slimmer and the wings are longer and held horizontally during soaring flight. Plumages of both buzzards are confusingly variable but Honey Buzzards are sometimes characteristically barred across the underwings and if you see that the tail has only three well-spaced bars then you can be sure you’ve got a Honey Buzzard.
| A small number of pairs breed in Britain each year, mostly in the south of England, but with a few in Highland Scotland. A number of well-publicised raptor watchpoints have been set up, to make seeing the species easier. The best of these is probably Great Haldon Forest near Exeter, but the species can also be seen with patience at Swanton Novers in Norfolk and Wykeham Forest near Scarborough. Elsewhere occasional birds are seen on passage, particulalry on the south and east coasts. |
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| The easiest place to see these birds is at the migration bottlenecks such as Gibraltar, Istanbul and Borcka. Otherwise, they are widespead breeding birds throughout much of Europe. They are difficult to see in their breeding woods but spend a great deal of time in the air, either soaring or displaying. |