Birds of Venezuela

Harriers (genus Circus) are medium to large hawks with circular disc shaped faces used for enhanced hearing. Harriers glide beautifully over open areas looking and listening for prey. Wings form a 'V' when soaring.


Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) Male Uruguay Male may have white front or be almost entirely sooty grey (sooty or melanistic morph).
Photograph by Dario Niz This image has been placed in the public domain.


Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) Female French Guiana A typical female.
Photograph by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE © All Rights Reserved.


Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) Immature Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Immature sooty morph.
Photograph by Cláudio D. Timm Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

Always found outside of the forest (trees get in the way of long wings).

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