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Eastern Buzzard

SP
Buteo japonicus
말똥가리
Included in KBR checklist
Eastern Buzzard
NOZO · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0

Eastern Buzzard (Buteo japonicus), known in Korean as 말똥가리 has eligible documented records in 17 of South Korea's 17 first-level administrative regions in the current KoreAves evidence projection. The current supporting record sources are GBIF. These records document evidence coverage; regions without eligible records are not interpreted as biological absence, and the counts are not population or abundance estimates.

Regions with records 17 / 17
Record sources 1 / 2

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Family Accipitridae

Family per AviList v2025b (CC BY 4.0) · Avibase record ↗ · Evidence snapshot 2026-10-04

and 2 more in this family.