Bizzart

The Bizzart (Buteo buteo) is a middlin or muckle bird o prey, whase reenge covers maist o Europe an extends intae Asie. It tends tae bide aw year, except in the cauldest pairts o its reenge, an in the case o ae subspecies.

Bizzart
In the Netherlands
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Faimily:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Buteo
Species:	B. buteo
Binomial name
Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
7-10, see text

Buteo buteo

Systematics

The Bizzart wis first descrieved bi Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Falco buteo.^[2] Bizzart subspecies faw intae twa groups. The wastren Buteo group is mainly resident or short-distance migrants. They are:

• Buteo buteo buteo: maist o Europe
• B. b. rothschildi: Azores
• B. b. insularum: Canary Islands
• B. b. arrigonii: Corsicae an Sardinie
• B. b. menetriesi: Caucasus
• B. b. harterti: Madeira, doubtfully distinct frae nominate Buteo

The eastren vulpinus group includes

• B. b. vulpinus (Steppe Bizzart): Eurasie: migrant breeder
• B. b. burmanicus (Himalayan Bizzart): Himalayas an westren Cheenae
• B. b. japonicus: Japan: resident
• B. b. toyoshimai: Izu Islands an Bonin Islands
• B. b. oshiroi: Daito Islands