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Buzzard Beauty or Eyecatching Eagle?

Geranoaetus melanoleucus or Buteo melanoleucus

 

This beautiful raptor from South America is classified as both an Eagle and a Buzzard because of a confusion created when an Adult and Immature were allotted different genus classifications because it was thought that due to the difference in plumage colouration the birds were not conspecific. (Did not belong to the same species).

Therefore, it is both an Eagle and a Buzzard, we may be confused but I don't think the bird cares one way or the other :-))

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Uploaded on March 26, 2011
Taken on March 23, 2011