BTO Bird ID - Summer Buzzards: Common Buzzard and Honey-buzzard

[@catherinelinstrum3328]

These ID videos are brilliant. Unfussy, clear and articulate. Thanks so much for sharing them.

[@bibipictures554]

So proud of Buzzards, they've made such an oustanding comeback, every year I see more and more

[@merrelltheperil]

gorgeous!

[@uib301]

All these BTO ID films are excellent. Beautifully and clearly delivered. Thank you

[@jozefwolfka5247]

Thank you for this ID-video! Last summer I made 2 photo's of honey-buzzards. One solo and one of a pair. Now I know for sure they are honey-buzzards! It was so hard to make out the difference with the common buzzards! They both live in the forrests near my home in Ede, The Netherlands! In The Netherlands we call the honey-buzzard wespendief: wasp thief :-)

[@forestdweller5581]

Your videos are so well done and informative. And you are absolutely right that when you familiarize yourself in the field it becomes easier to recocgnise personality as well.

[@harrietsmith5421]

Four buzzards live near me! They are great to watch.

[@ismailfellah3664]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. True for someone like me didn't know how to separate buzzards to eagles.

[@maskulll]

nature is beautiful, its important to protect birds

[@touchedbynature5445]

Brilliant videos very informative and helpful, thank you.

[@dukedex5043]

Worth mentioning that if up close and can see the eyes, honey buzzard has yellow eyes and common buzzard has brown eyes.

[@naturesglory7061]

Lovely video good information, was lucky to get a good close-up video this year

[@apss5736]

awesome video

[@richardwallace4509]

Very good I saw in the sky what looked like a buzzard but can't be sure in southwater West Sussex.

[@debs55]

Beautiful bird

[@Yaarbiriah]

immensely helpful, thanks!.. we get a lot of these through here (Israel) as well as long legged buzzard and others.

[@soifpls]

They're wonderful animals, I'd love to take care of them

[@mrstealyogirlwitextrasauce6167]

soif_pls why would you wanna have a buzzard they eat smelly dead stuff

[@touchedbynature5445]

Collins BTO. GUIDE TO BRITISH BIRDS. IS A VERY INFORMATIVE AND WELL PRESENTED BOOK FOR BIRD IDENTIFECATION. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.

[@JamesTaylor-yh9rl]

there is one on my neinberhood in london.ive seen and and heard him alot

[@Guillberto]

Is the still at 0:26 not a 1st year Red tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)?

[@valiapavlou]

Guill McIvor No, it’s a common buzzard (buteo buteo)

[@fitzanator436]

I have 6 buzzards in surrounding fields on my boundary now i know for sure what type thay are👍

[@Vivace1970]

The bird flying between (4.38-4.58m) is not a Goshawk.That's a Sparrowhawk.

[@chrispainter827]

No it ain't. Pause the images at various points and you'll see it's a goshawk. Male, hence the small size, but still a goshawk

[@ParthanRavi]

I am watching since last two years.. I can identify it's whistling.. Sound.. And take several vedios.

[@neilpavett3413]

Surely if you see a "Buzzard" in the UK, you can be 99% certain that it is a Common Buzzard? Birdwatchers have a tendency to inflate what they see - always convinced it is the very similar but much rarer species they are seeing.

[@BTOvideo]

There are regular sightings of Honey Buzzard in the UK, so it's not impossible! We have around 100 breeding pairs.

[@piksta74]

At 1.53 there is a Kite also you can see the forked tail

[@woofwoof5618]

Good video but you seem to depart from normal language usage in leaving out definite and indefinite articles. I would no more think of saying 'Buzzard is a common raptor in the UK' than I would 'Ant is a common insect'.

[@wildlifeinthenetherlands857]

Funny name !! 😆

[@fahriramadhan6101]

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[@TrumpyJake]

this was in my corridor today my mum was taking stuff from the car back into the house and it was at the front door (open) then it came into the corridor my mum got very shocked/scared and chucked something at it and it didn't even flinch luckily it moved out and my mum could shut the door also lucky it didn't fly up stairs. (I live in Scotland)

[@annabellesinger3717]

Funny name buzzard!

[@Pollensaphiliac]

Honey Buzzard eats bees and wasps and their larvae .. and the honey

[@ishtarbabylon4869]

Oh

[@europeanhoneybuzzard8328]

Identify Me, if you can!

[@birdshenanigans8506]

Also, just like the female Sparrowhawk, the Honey Buzzard is not a Buzzard. 👍👍👍

[@david_4739]

Jizz? What's the deal?

[@BTOvideo]

A term often used by birdwatchers! (Probably) comes from the idea of General Impression of Size and Shape. When you become familiar with a bird species, you can identify it from a multitude of clues together, it's 'personality' if you like, in the same way you can identify someone you know well, just by how they walk. Jizz is very important in identifying birds in the field when you often can't get good views of individual feather patterns and details. It's how you can confidently ID a Robin hopping away frm you, even though you can't see it's red breast.

[@david_4739]

Well that's a superb answer. I feel educated now. Thank you! So it's kind of a gestalt feel of a bird to ID them at a glance. Unfortunate acronym all the same - it needs idiot-proofing so you don't get comments like mine!

[@peteduncan-um4kx]

why do you people never include the birds call? useless!

[@noelbullard4676]

Lovely bird but sadly been made legal to shoot them to protect pheasants

[@MoorefieldKatrina]

That is a hawk.....that is not a buzzard

[@huntergathererbushcraft4063]

buzzards are hawks

[@robpodevin5972]

Katrina Moorefield You're wrong a Buzzard is a species of Hawk not a vulture.There is no vulture that's called vulture is there.

[@paulthomson9709]

Katrina Moorefield only in america is a buzzard a name for a vulture. The rest of the world a buzzard is a sun species of hawk