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Jackal Buzzard
Buteo rufofuscus · Family Accipitridae
Buteo rufofuscus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 126,459
- Countries and territories with records
- 17
About this species
This species has 126,459 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (97.5%) and Lesotho (1.5%); together they account for 99% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.31% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Buteo rufofuscus combines the genus name Buteo with the species epithet rufofuscus. 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 54th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 30.8% of the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.