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Circus cyaneus · Family Accipitridae
Circus cyaneus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 5,110,398
- Countries and territories with records
- 136
About this species
This species has 5,110,398 occurrence records from 136 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (65%), Canada (12.1%), Sweden (5.8%), Denmark (4.1%) and France (3.3%); together they account for 90.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Circus cyaneus combines the genus name Circus with the species epithet cyaneus. The Warbla app catalog lists 16 species of the genus Circus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Circus hudsonius, Circus aeruginosus and Circus pygargus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 12.4 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.