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Location

Road Arequipa to Chivay
Peru

Metadata

Make Nikon F50
Lens Nikkor AF 28-200 mm f/3.8-5.6   at 200 mm
Exposure not available  
Image size 800 x 534 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Rotrückenbussard Dutch  Roodrugbuizerd
Italian  Poiana dorsorosso Spanish  Busardo Dorsirrojo

Comments

The common large Buteo of Peru, seen here on west side of the Andes, has a very variable plumage; this one is a female light-morph, with reddish brown back and belly narrowly barred with gray.




 
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    15/07/1999

Variable Hawk female
Buteo polyosoma
Buse tricolore
Micheline JACQUEMIN