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Western marsh harrier. The western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus), often simply called the marsh harrier, breeds widely across Europe and Asia. It is migratory except in the mildest regions, and winters mainly in Africa. It hunts small mammals, frogs, fish, insects and birds, surprising them as it drifts low over fields and reedbeds. Its ...
The western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) is a large harrier, a bird of prey from temperate and subtropical western Eurasia and adjacent Africa. It is also known as the Eurasian marsh harrier . Formerly, a number of relatives were included in C. aeruginosus , which was then known as " marsh harrier " .
The eastern marsh harrier ... It is 48 to 58 cm long with a wingspan of 113 to 137 cm; like most birds of prey, the female is usually larger than the male.
African marsh harrier, KwaZulu-Natal. African Marsh harrier females are larger than males and they are 44–47 centimetres (17–19 in) in length, with females being about 30% heavier than males (Simmons and Simmons 2000). Adults, (like the male bird right) have yellow eyes, but brown eyes when immature.
The northern harrier breeds in North America, and its closest relative is the cinereous harrier (C. cinereus) of South America. The male's plumage is darker grey than that of the hen harrier, and the female is also darker and more rufous. [9] The adult male is sometimes nicknamed the "Grey Ghost", because of his striking plumage and spectral aura.
Northern harrier, adult male. The genus Circus was introduced by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799. [2] The type species was subsequently designated as the western marsh harrier. [3] [4] Most harriers are placed in this genus.
The Malagasy harrier (Circus macrosceles) is a bird of prey belonging to the marsh harrier group of harriers. It inhabits Madagascar and the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean . It was formerly regarded as a subspecies of the Réunion harrier ( C. maillardi ) but is increasingly treated as a separate species.
Western marsh-harrier, Circus aeruginosus (A) [94] ... feathers with distinctive male and female plumage. Cuban trogon, Priotelus temnurus (A) [114] Kingfishers.