Grasshopper Buzzard
People in Uganda set a lot of controlled brush fires so that livestock will have new vegetation to eat in the following season. Some species follow the fires the way antbirds in the New World tropics follow army ant swarms in the hope of catching prey flushed by the ants. One of the species who follows the fires is a lovely hawk called the Grasshopper Buzzard, who flashes russet wing patches when it flies. It has a black vertical line on its throat like a Lizard Buzzard. The Grasshopper Buzzard is an African migrant from the Sahel region to the north, and it prefers dry habitat. We saw a group of these on our drive toward Murchison Falls National Park.
Grasshopper Buzzard
People in Uganda set a lot of controlled brush fires so that livestock will have new vegetation to eat in the following season. Some species follow the fires the way antbirds in the New World tropics follow army ant swarms in the hope of catching prey flushed by the ants. One of the species who follows the fires is a lovely hawk called the Grasshopper Buzzard, who flashes russet wing patches when it flies. It has a black vertical line on its throat like a Lizard Buzzard. The Grasshopper Buzzard is an African migrant from the Sahel region to the north, and it prefers dry habitat. We saw a group of these on our drive toward Murchison Falls National Park.