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Common Buzzard
Buteo buteo · Family Accipitridae
Buteo buteo
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 7,616,670
- Countries and territories with records
- 139
About this species
This species has 7,616,670 occurrence records from 139 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the Netherlands (19.1%), Sweden (15.9%), Denmark (11.2%), France (9.9%) and the United Kingdom (8.5%); together they account for 64.6% of the total. In the Netherlands, this species accounts for 2.2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo buteo combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet buteo. The Warbla app catalog lists 27 species of the genus Buteo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Buteo jamaicensis, Buteo lineatus and Buteo lagopus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 18.5 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.