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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

Order  Accipitriformes   Family  Accipitridae

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