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Eastern Buzzard
Buteo japonicus · Family Accipitridae
Buteo japonicus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 66,895
- Countries and territories with records
- 28
About this species
This species has 66,895 occurrence records from 28 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (29.8%), Japan (21.6%), China (20%), South Korea (13.4%) and Hong Kong (9%); together they account for 93.7% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.094% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo japonicus combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet japonicus. 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 buteo and Buteo lineatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 71st among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 16.3% of the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.