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Long-legged Buzzard
Buteo rufinus · Family Accipitridae
Buteo rufinus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 135,382
- Countries and territories with records
- 112
About this species
This species has 135,382 occurrence records from 112 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (17.6%), Türkiye (17%), India (9.3%), Morocco (5%) and Iran (4.8%); together they account for 53.7% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.36% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo rufinus combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet rufinus. 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 51st among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 32.9% of the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.