Long-legged Buzzard

Long-legged Buzzard / Buteo rufinus

Long-legged Buzzard

Here the details of the Long-legged Buzzard named bird below:

SCI Name:  Buteo rufinus
Protonym:  Falco rufinus AtlasReis.nord.Afr.Vog.[Ruppell](1826) -1826 p.40 pl.27
Taxonomy:  Accipitriformes / Accipitridae /
Taxonomy Code:  lolbuz1
Type Locality:  upper Nubia, Shendi, Sennar, and Ethiopia.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1829
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo.  Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. BateoBiteo.
Synon. AmplibuteoArchibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.

buteo
L. buteo, buteonis  buzzard; "41. FALCO.  ...  Buteo.  14. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco, abdomine pallido maculis fuscis.  Buteo vulgaris. Gesn. av. 46. Will. ornith. 38. t. 6. Raj. av. 16.  Buteo. Alb. av. I. p. 1. t. 1.  Habitat in Europa, Cuniculis & Bufonibus infestus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buteo).

rufinus
Med. L. rufinus golden, golden-red < L. rufus ruddy.
● ex “Coucal Rufin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 221 (syn. Centropus benghalensis).

SUBSPECIES

Long-legged Buzzard (Northern)
SCI Name: Buteo rufinus rufinus
rufinus
Med. L. rufinus golden, golden-red < L. rufus ruddy.
● ex “Coucal Rufin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 221 (syn. Centropus benghalensis).

Long-legged Buzzard (Atlas)
SCI Name: Buteo rufinus cirtensis
cirtensis
L. Cirtensis  of Cirta, Numidia (= Constantine, Algeria).