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Forest buzzard

Forest buzzard

The forest buzzard is a species of bird of prey. This is a resident breeding species in woodlands in southern and eastern South Africa. The forest buzzard hunts along the edge of or in the forest, where it is a sit and wait predator which pounces on prey from a perch. It has been recorded as preying on small mammals, birds up to the size of a turaco or a francolin, snakes, lizards, frogs, grasshoppers, wasps, beetles and scorpions.