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title: "Gray-faced Buzzard"
description: "Butastur indicus — Uccelli. The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/gray-faced-buzzard
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Gray-faced Buzzard

> Butastur indicus — Uccelli. The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey.

- Scientific name: *Butastur indicus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 3717
- Wikidata: [Q1270171](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1270171)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5377](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5377)

## Names

- en: Gray-faced Buzzard
- de: Kiefernteesa
- es: Busardo carigrís
- fr: Busautour à joues grises
- nl: Grijskopbuizerd
- pt: Bútio-de-cara-cinzenta
- pl: Myszołap białobrewy

## Countries with the most observations

TW (694), JP (536), CN (457), TH (377), PH (123), KR (78), RU (77), HK (62), VN (52), SG (46), ID (25), MY (21)

## Summary

The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey. It is typically 41–46 cm (16–18 in) in length, making it a small-sized raptor. It breeds in Manchuria, Korea and Japan; it winters in South-east Asia.
It is a bird of open land. It eats lizards, small mammals and large insects.
The adult has a grey head, breast and neck, white throat, black moustaches and mesial stripes, brown back and upperwings, and brown bars on white underparts and underwings. The juvenile is brown and mottled above, pale below with brown streaks, and has a broad white supercilium and brown face.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-faced_buzzard

## Photo

![Gray-faced Buzzard](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gray-faced-buzzard/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21870425

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gray-faced-buzzard?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).