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Jackal buzzard, the Glossary

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The jackal buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus) is a fairly large African bird of prey.[1]

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  1. 52 relations: Africa, Archer's buzzard, Augur buzzard, Bateleur, Bird, Bird migration, Bird of prey, Black-backed jackal, Botswana, Buteo, Cape hare, Eswatini, Forest buzzard, Four-striped grass mouse, Francolin, Galliformes, Goat, Golden mole, Greater cane rat, Hyena, Insect, Ithala Game Reserve, Jackal, Johann Reinhold Forster, Lesotho, Lizard, Makhanda, South Africa, Marsh owl, Mongoose, Monitor lizard, Mozambique, Namibia, Old World vulture, Overhead power line, Pedetes, Puff adder, Rat, Red-tailed hawk, Reservoir, Rock hyrax, Rodent, Sandgrouse, Savanna, Sheep, Siblicide, Snake, South Africa, South African Republic, Species complex, Springbok, ... Expand index (2 more) »

  2. Birds described in 1798
  3. Buteo
  4. Endemic birds of South Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Archer's buzzard

Archer's buzzard (Buteo augur archeri) is a subspecies of the augur buzzard that is endemic to Somalia. Jackal buzzard and Archer's buzzard are birds of prey of Sub-Saharan Africa and Buteo.

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Augur buzzard

The augur buzzard (Buteo augur) is a fairly large African bird of prey. Jackal buzzard and augur buzzard are birds of prey of Sub-Saharan Africa and Buteo.

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Bateleur

The bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus), also known as the bateleur eagle, is a medium-sized eagle in the family Accipitridae. Jackal buzzard and bateleur are birds of prey of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Bird of prey

Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).

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Black-backed jackal

The black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas), also called the silver-backed jackal, is a medium-sized canine native to eastern and southern Africa.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Buteo

Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings.

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Cape hare

The Cape hare (Lepus capensis), also called the brown hare and the desert hare, is a hare native to Africa and Arabia extending into India.

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Eswatini

Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Forest buzzard

The forest buzzard (Buteo trizonatus), is a species of bird of prey found in Africa, though some authorities have placed it as a subspecies of another species, the mountain buzzard, Buto oreophilus. Jackal buzzard and forest buzzard are Buteo.

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Four-striped grass mouse

The four-striped grass mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) or four-striped grass rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Francolin

Francolins are birds in the tribe Gallini that traditionally have been placed in the genus Francolinus, but now commonly are divided into multiple genera.

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Galliformes

Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.

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Goat

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.

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Golden mole

Golden moles are small insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Greater cane rat

The greater cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), also known as the grasscutter (in Ghana, Nigeria and other regions of West Africa), is one of two species of cane rats, a small family of African hystricognath rodents.

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Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Ithala Game Reserve

Ithala Game Reserve is situated in 290 km2 of rugged, mountainous thornveld, about 400 km north of Durban, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Jackal

Jackals are canids native to Africa and Eurasia.

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Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and naturalist who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

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Lesotho

Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Makhanda, South Africa

Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 75,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Marsh owl

The marsh owl (Asio capensis) is a medium to large species of owl in the family Strigidae. Jackal buzzard and marsh owl are birds of Southern Africa.

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Mongoose

A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae.

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Monitor lizard

Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Old World vulture

Old World vultures are vultures that are found in the Old World, i.e. the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and which belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, buzzards, kites, and hawks.

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Overhead power line

An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances.

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Pedetes

Pedetes is a genus of rodent, the springhares, in the family Pedetidae.

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Puff adder

The puff adder (Bitis arietans) is a highly venomous viper species found in savannahs and grasslands from Morocco and western Arabia throughout Africa except for the Sahara and rainforest regions.

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Rat

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.

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Red-tailed hawk

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. Jackal buzzard and red-tailed hawk are Buteo.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Rock hyrax

The rock hyrax (Procavia capensis), also called dassie, Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (from some interpretations of a word used in the King James Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Sandgrouse

Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae, a family of sixteen species of bird, members of the order Pterocliformes.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Siblicide

Siblicide (attributed by behavioural ecologist Doug Mock to Barbara M. Braun) is the killing of an infant individual by its close relatives (full or half siblings).

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Republic

The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result of the Second Boer War.

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Species complex

In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear.

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Springbok

The springbok or springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) is an antelope found mainly in south and southwest Africa.

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Steenbok

The steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) is a common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa.

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Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy.

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See also

Birds described in 1798

Buteo

Endemic birds of South Africa

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackal_buzzard

Also known as Auger Buzzard, Buteo auger, Buteo rufofuscus, Jackal Buzzard, Augur Buzzard.

, Steenbok, Wind turbine.