Butastur

Butastur is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

Butastur
in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Buteoninae
Genus:	Butastur Hodgson, 1843
Type species
Circus teesa Franklin, 1831

Taxonomy and species

The genus Butastur was introduced in 1843 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the white-eyed buzzard as the type species.^[1][2] The genus name is a portmanteau of the genus Buteo introduced by Bernard Germain de Lacépède for the buzzards and Astur introduced by Lacépède for the goshawks.^[3] The genus now contains four species.^[4]

Genus Butastur – Hodgson, 1843 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Rufous-winged buzzard	Butastur liventer (Temminck, 1827)	southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Grasshopper buzzard	Butastur rufipennis (Sundevall, 1850)	Senegal and Gambia east to Ethiopia, migrating south to Sierra Leone, Cameroon, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and northern Tanzania	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-eyed buzzard	Butastur teesa (Franklin, 1831)	Iran, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Grey-faced buzzard	Butastur indicus (Gmelin, JF, 1788)	Russia, North China, Korea, Japan, and Philippines	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC