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Beautiful Buzzard

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The Common Buzzard - Buteo buteo

can usually be found hunting over open land throughout its range across Europe into Asia.

 

They eat mainly small mammals but will take a varied diet of snakes, lizards, pheasant and rabbit.

 

The males perform a spectacular aeriel display to attract a mate before the begginning of spring. This performance is known as the "roller coaster" where the male will rise up high in the sky and the soar down in a spiral.

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