Crested Honey Buzzard
Summary
A juvenile bird was at the Golf Club for some weeks from January 2018, and reappeared early May. It favoured the tall trees between hole 7 and 9 and was often in the same area as an adult Steppe Buzzard. A vagrant to our area although wintering birds regularly occur in the east of the Kingdom.
Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) | Example Image Image from Brian James |
Seasonality in KAUST (number of years since KAUST's founding when this species was observed in a given month):
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |