Birds of the World


Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus aeruginosus) Range: PAL, AF: w, wc Spain
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans) Male Range: AU: Australia (except sc), North, South, Stewart and Chatham is. (e of South I.; New Zealand), Vanuatu, New Caledonia including Loyalty Is., to Fiji and Tonga (sw, sc Polynesia) Peter Murrel Reserve, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia
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Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis) Range: AU: Sulawesi and Sumba (sw Lesser Sundas) and Australia (except Tasmania) Australia
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Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) Male Range: SA: Colombia to the Guianas and ne Brazil, s to c Chile and c Argentina 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 Range: SA: Colombia to the Guianas and ne Brazil, s to c Chile and c Argentina French Guiana A typical female.
Photograph by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE © All Rights Reserved.


Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni) Immature Range: SA: Colombia to the Guianas and ne Brazil, s to c Chile and c Argentina 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).


Cinereous Harrier (Circus cinereus) Male Range: SA: c Colombia to Tierra del Fuego, Paraguay and se Brazil to Tierra del Fuego Mendoza, Argentina
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Cinereous Harrier (Circus cinereus) Male Range: SA: c Colombia to Tierra del Fuego, Paraguay and se Brazil to Tierra del Fuego Mendoza, Argentina Note white underwing, and grey chest, back, and back of wings of male.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Cinereous Harrier (Circus cinereus) Female Range: SA: c Colombia to Tierra del Fuego, Paraguay and se Brazil to Tierra del Fuego Mendoza, Argentina
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Male is cinereous. Note rufous barring and white rump on both sexes. Found in marshes with tall reeds.
In typical habitat.
Male in flight from above.

Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) Male
Range: PAL: Europe and c, n Asia
Germany


Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius) Male Range: NA, MA: widespread Green Cay Nature Center, Delray Beach, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius) Female Range: NA, MA: widespread Vancouver, Canada
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Malagasy Harrier (Circus macrosceles) Endangered Range: AF: Grande Comore (=Njazidja), Mohéli (=Mwali) and Anjouan (=Nzwani; nw, c Comoros) and w, c Madagascar

Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) Male Near Threatened
Range: PAL: e Europe to c Asia
Kuwait

Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) Female Near Threatened
Range: PAL: e Europe to c Asia
Kuwait

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Reunion Harrier (Circus maillardi) Endangered Range: AF: Réunion (w Mascarenes)


Black Harrier (Circus maurus) Endangered Range: AF: Namibia and South Africa Western Cape, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos) Male Range: PAL: se Siberia, Korean Pen. and ne China Thailand
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos) Female Range: PAL: se Siberia, Korean Pen. and ne China Sungai Balang/ , Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) Range: PAL: w Europe and nw Africa to c Asia Maasai Mara, Kenya
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African Marsh Harrier (Circus ranivorus) Range: AF: South Sudan and Kenya to South Africa South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Eastern Marsh Harrier (Circus spilonotus) Range: PAL: c Siberia to ne China and Japan Bangchak, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Photograph by Somchai Kanchanasut © All Rights Reserved.

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Papuan Harrier (Circus spilothorax) Range: AU: wc to se New Guinea