{"id":6416,"date":"2017-06-01T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2021-08-01T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T07:12:50","slug":"european-honey-buzzard-pernis-apivorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birds-in-flight.net\/?p=6416","title":{"rendered":"European Honey Buzzard
Pernis apivorus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

>> GENERAL >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

– size of Common Buzzard<\/a>
\n– diurnal migrant
\n– migrates single or in loose flocks
\n– at migration bottlenecks several hundred to thousands may flock<\/p>\n

>> VISUAL ID >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF3513, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\ndark morph
\n– rather uniform dark-brown body and underwing coverts contrasting to lighter based outer remiges
\n– primaries broad dark tipped
\n– barring of wing more distict and tail longer than in -> Common Buzzard<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF3514, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\ndark morph
\n– note the pigeon-like head and bill<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF3515, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\ndark morph<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF3516, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\nlight morph
\n– bulging secondaries and narrow ‘hand’ can lead to a striking resemblence with Northern Goshawk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF3518, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\nlight morph
\n– light birds usually show a dark mask around the eye (not always that distinct)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF3517, 15\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\ndark and rufous morph
\n– Common Buzzard<\/a>would never show such a neat unicoloured underside <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1374, 05\/09\/2012, Oberpfalz, Germany, Mathias Putze
\ndark morph<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1382, 05\/09\/2012, Oberpfalz, Germany, Mathias Putze
\ndark morph
\n– uniform dark appearance
\n– barring of wing barely recognisable from above
\n– slightly lighter inner hand<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1 CY<\/strong>
\nHooded Crow Corvus cornix<\/em><\/strong>
\nBIF1419, 11\/10\/2011, Besh Barmag, Azerbaijan, Michael Hei\u00df
\ndark intermediate morph
\n– contrast between underwing coverts and broad white based remiges
\n– outermost primaries (‘fingers’) rather short -> Crested Honey Buzzard<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1423, 16\/09\/2010, Ras Garib, Egypt, Michael Hei\u00df
\ndark and rufous morph
\n– dusky secondaries
\n– broad black tipped outer primaries and largely white inner primaries
\n– distict black trailing edge to the wing -> Booted Eagle<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, F AD<\/strong>
\nBIF3519, 15\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\nintermediate morph,
\n– typical silhouette with fairly small head and long tail
\n– five long ‘fingers’\u00a0(six ‘fingers’ in Crested Honey Buzzard<\/a>)
\n– F wing pattern with evenly spaced barring
\n– F tail pattern with narrower terminal band than M<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, F AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1373, 26\/06\/2014, J\u00fcterbog, Germany, Mathias Putze
\nlighter intermediate morph
\n– carpal patches more obvious in lighter birds
\n– barring of the wings more irregular than in M
\n– possibly young AD due to indistict black trailing edge to the wing<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, F AD<\/strong>
\nBIF3520, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\nintermediate morph,
\n– less clean patterned with more wingbars than M<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, F AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1420, 14\/09\/2010, Ras Garib, Egypt, Michael Hei\u00df<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1370, 26\/06\/2014, J\u00fcterbog, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– grey head with yellow eye
\n– broad black trailing edge to the wing, large gap to next wingband
\n– upperside generally greyer than in F<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF3276, 19\/05\/2014, Bad Segeberg, Germany, Roland Neumann
\n– typical head-on view with ‘hanging hand’<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF3521, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\nlight morph
\n– note dark brown oval shaped carpal patch (missing in\u00a0Crested Honey Buzzard<\/a>, comma in Common Buzzard<\/a> and round in Rough-legged Buzzard<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF3522, 16\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze
\nintermediate morph
\n– large gap between broad black trailing edge and next wingband
\n– distinctly contrasting black tipped outer primaries<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1377, 26\/06\/2014, J\u00fcterbog, Germany, Mathias Putze
\nintermediate morph
\n– broad black terminal band in tail
\n– generally much cleaner patternd than Common Buzzard<\/a>, which would never show such a neat barring of body and underwing<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1379, 26\/06\/2014, J\u00fcterbog, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– striking M tail and wing pattern<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1380, 12\/05\/2008, R\u00fcgen, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– in straight flight typical shape of folded tail caused by round tipped rectrices<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1381, 26\/06\/2014, J\u00fcterbog, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– contrasting grey head and broad tipped primaries<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, F AD<\/strong>
\nBIF2138, 15\/06\/2017, Trinwillershagen, Germany, Roland Neumann
\n– F upperside unicoloured brown, inner hand with pale window<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, M AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1383, 12\/05\/2008, R\u00fcgen, Germany, Mathias Putze
\n– recognisable as AD by broad black trailing edge<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, 1CY<\/strong>
\nBIF1421, 17\/10\/2010, Ras Garib, Egypt, Michael Hei\u00df
\n– darker carpal patches not as obvious as in AD<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em>, AD M<\/strong>
\nBIF3523, 14\/09\/2020, Falsterbo, Sweden, Mathias Putze<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus <\/em>AD<\/strong>
\nBIF1422, 14\/09\/2010, Ras Garib, Egypt, Michael Hei\u00df<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus <\/em> AD and 1CY (lowest bird)<\/strong>
\nBIF1424, 14\/09\/2010, Ras Garib, Egypt, Michael Hei\u00df
\n– dusky secondaries and very broad black tipped primaries in 1CY<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nEuropean Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus<\/em><\/strong>
\nBIF1425, 14\/09\/2010, Ras Garib, Egypt, Michael Hei\u00df<\/p>\n

>> ACOUSTIC ID >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

– usually nonvocal during migration<\/p>\n

>> COMPARISON SPECIES >>>>><\/strong><\/p>\n

Crested Honey Buzzard<\/a> (v)
\nRough-legged Buzzard<\/a> (v)
\nCommon Buzzard<\/a> (v)
\nLong-legged Buzzard<\/a> (v)
\nUpland Buzzard (v)
\nBooted Eagle<\/a> (v)<\/p>\n

#raptor #birdofprey #birdsofprey #soaringbird<\/p>\n

#ornithology #birdmigration #birdID #birdguide #birding #birdwatching #birdsound #westernpalearctic #europe #vismig #flightcalls #middleeast #northernafrica #workinprogress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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