Things you need to know about BUZZARDS!
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Find out everything you could ever want to know about common Buzzards including where buzzards live, what buzzards eat, where buzzards nest, how long buzzards live for and much more.
The common Buzzard is a medium to large bird of prey that lives from the west coast of Ireland all across Europe and central Asia as far west as Japan and is even found in eastern Africa. Females are slightly larger than males and grow to have a wingspan of around 4 and a half feet and can weigh up to 1.4 kilos.
Buzzards can be a wide variety of colours ranging from almost pure white to dark brown and black. They have a hook shaped beak with a bright yellow base and featherless yellow legs and feet. From below a buzzards silhouette shows a noticeable dark band around the edge of its wings and 5 primary feathers that extend from their ends.
Buzzards can be found in most countryside habitats but do extremely well in traditional farming areas. Here they have open fields for hunting and also hedgerows and trees for roosting and nesting.
They are capable hunters and often catch small rabbits, rodents and slower species of birds such as crows and wood pigeons but they are also opportunist scavengers and a large portion of their diet can be made up of carrion. Surprisingly, they also seem to have a taste for worms and can often be seen bounding across wet fields and meadows in search of them.
Buzzards start nesting from three years of age when each pair will claim a territory and construct multiple nests from large twigs either high up in trees or I rocky crags. They usually build 3 to 4 but can have as many as 14 nest sites to choose from. Once they have decided on which nest to use, the pair have a curious habit of decorating the chosen nest site with fresh green leaves and branches although the purpose of this isn’t really known. Each female will lay between 2 and 5 eggs at 2 to 3 day intervals. These are 5 to 6cm long and white with sporadic red markings. The female does most of the incubation and as this starts from when the first egg is laid the first chick to hatch will often be noticeably larger than its siblings. This usually takes 33 to 35 days and when the chicks first hatch they are covered in white down. Both parents feed the chicks and if food is in short supply, the larger and older chicks will bully and out compete their siblings. It takes 55 days for the chicks to fledge after which point they stay with their parents for a further 6 to 8 weeks, learning to find food and fend for themselves. Each pair will only breed once per season and will often pick a different nest from their collection each year.
Over the past 30 years Buzzards have done extremely well across most of Europe and there are now more than 300,000 breeding pairs in the UK alone. Although these are pretty hardy birds, as they are prone to scavenging they are quite susceptible to being accidently killed as a result of eating animals that have died after being poisoned or from eating poisoned bait. In the wild they have an average lifespan of between 12 and 20 years but one individual was found dead 30 years and five months after being ringed as a chick.
If you would like to see the original drone video of the buzzards in flight, that can be found here: • Dji mini 2 flying with...
Some of the other footage and photographs used in this video were obtained using creative commons licences, the originals and their licence details can be found at:
• common buzzard footage close up staring
• Common Buzzard in Nest... shakey nest footage
• Common buzzard sitting 🔴 almost white in 360 but has 480 online
• Buzzard eating a dead ... eating
• Mäusebussard Horst / E... young birds on nest good
• Mäusebussard Horst / E... older birds nest good
• Bussarde catching and eating worm
• Buse variable (Buteo b... sitting on post
• Mäusebussarde auf Acke... pale morph in field
• Káně lesní - Buteo but... fantastic nest footage from eggs to fledge
• Buse variable (Buteo b... on post and flying to worm
• Ratonero común o Busar... young in nest okay
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I rescued one from the side of a road, struggling during a heatwave. We caught her and wrapped her in a jacket. I then held her on my lap as my partner drove us to a wildlife rescue. At one point I uncovered her head, thinking I could stroke her 😂 She hissed at me and I didn't move for the rest of the journey 😂 The rescue invited us to see her release a few weeks later 😊
Lmfao😂😂
Honestly tho that’s a wholesome thing you did there it warms my heart hearing about people saving wild animals😅
I would be afraid they would scratch me or something
Kind of you! 😻 although personally if I want to save an animal "struggling in heatwave" I wouldn't wrap it in a blanket to exacerbate the body heat? 🤔 unless its a cooling or damp blanket.
Leave wildlife be.
I love the way these birds circle the sky in packs of four where I live.
I could watch them all day.
I hadn't realised the range of colours they can have. Interesting, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Great video, I had no idea buzzards had such a long lifespan! Beautiful birds 😍
Thank you. I had thought they would be fairly long lived as they take a while to mature but 30+ years was surprising! Im glad you enjoyed the video.
Amazing animals, they're very aggressive. I've been a volunteer for a local animal rescue charity for twelve years now and I can say that buzzards are the hardest animals in the UK to rescue due to their aggressiveness.
Thank you. Brilliant video (yet again!). I've just returned from walking my three dogs through the local woods with farmland on either side. (I'm in Midlothian, Scotland).I have been 'following' a particular buzzard for the past three years and was pleased to learn from you that they have a decent lifespan. Today, the buzzard I 'follow' was preening his feathers on quite a low branch of an oak tree. I stood still for about a minute to enjoy the spectacle. He then decided to fly up through the trees and headed off over into the nearby field and hedgerows. I am delighted that there are still hedgerows of hawthorn and the like, as nature truly needs them. So, once again, thank you for bringing nature to my door and educating me. Off now to re-fill my bird feeders. I can hardly keep up with those hungry birds!
Great video! I love seeing buzzards flying over while I'm working
Thank you, I’m glad you liked the video!
That's brilliant 👍
Cheers!
Thanks for posting this beauty 💕
A friend of mine has a male buzzard called Sampson…it was born and leg ringed in 1984 and is still alive and doing very well
We have a resident pair of buzzards here in Cheshire. I live in a semi-rural area, and a buzzard can be seen most days flying over the farmer's fields. They also fly over our housing estate. We hear the young calling to the adults (or maybe it's the other way round). They appear to have reared several broods over the last few years.
A great video 🙂 I showed my young daughter. She loves learning about wildlife!
Great video full of fascinating facts I’d not seen or heard elsewhere. Buzzards are one of my favourite birds so I loved this. Keep up the good work!
They remind me of Red-tailed and Red Shoulder Hawks ( same family) that we have in USA. But, the Buzzards are very different in the nest building habits and fielding for worms. That was pretty interesting. Always enjoy watching the videos and learning more about the natural world.
Great post thanks .I live in North Eat Derbyshire and often see them circling high above us.
Thanks again for sharing
Fabulous and beautiful,what wonderful aerial footage.👍✌
Very informative. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Brilliant Liam! So much I didn't know about buzzards and the footage was super to watch as well - especially the chicks which I could never hope to see in the nest. There is a beautiful buzzard where I walk - lots of white on it - I prefer those to the darker coloured ones. We also have a local one with a pattern on its chest that makes it look like it's wearing a Fairisle jumper!
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Beautiful. Love them. One pair was having nest on spruce in my backyard and bred 2 babies :-)
Excellent as always my friend. I was only thinking yesterday that it had seemed like a while since you'd popped your head up above the parapet. I love the fact that Buzzards have increased so markedly in numbers and range in the UK over the past 30 years. I remember driving from East London to Devon for holidays back in the early 1990's and looking forward to starting to see Buzzards on the way there but not until we'd gotten west of Andover. Then over a period of a few years I started seeing them sooner on the journey. Initially at the western section of the M25, then at South Mimms services, and now we have them across Essex. The same is starting to be true of Red Kites too, but they seem to be taking a bit longer. Thanks for putting this together for us Liam, and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours pal. 👍🙂👍
Helllo Graham. Thanks as always for leaving a comment. I have been very busy in the background working on a larger video (I’ve teamed up with the broads authority again). That video is finished so once they approve it, it will be live. I think it’s one of the best I’ve done but it took a long time to film and edit (mainly human error and camera issues to blame).
I’m used to seeing buzzards and don’t remember a time when they weren’t “common” but realised when my dad saw one and was surprised and asked what it was.
I hope you and your family have a great Christmas although I’m almost certain I’ll be speaking to you again between now and then :)
Beautiful birds!
Love all your bird knowledge ❤
Fascinating, many thanks!
The first video of yours I came across (which was today, 25th May), was the Blackbird one. I subscribed right after that, and I'm now binge-watching all of them! Excellent stuff, very interesting & informative, well presented, and with great footage. Keep up the good work! 😀👍
Me too! Blackbirds first and then binge watching … 😁
Seriously what a channel!!! All those fantastic info post on all the British wildlife!! I’d b so proud to of done such great work! Fantastic Liam !! Again learned so much new knowledge from your post ! 30 years life san for a buzzard !! What incredible info !!!! Take care 👍👍
Thanks Craig. I really appreciate your support and it’s great to know that these videos even have worth to someone who isn’t a nature novice. Cheers
Thank you for a very interesting article. Here in the (southern) Western Cape of South Africa we are visited by Steppe Buzzards (B. vulpinus) during our Spring/Summer and I believe they migrate all the way from (northern/eastern Europe). Also Jackal Buzzards (B. rufofuscus). Magnificent birds.
Thanks for the share . Here at Great Malvern we get Buzzards flying over on warm days climbing high flying in circles as they reach in the thermals . I love the scream they make before dropping into fields.
Lovely video. I remember , in the 1960's that you had to travel ( from Home counties) almost to Devon before seeing a buzzard. Now, living in West Sussex, I once saw three soaring right over my house. So something is going right for a change! And for glider pilots like me, you always look out for a buzzard, as he will be in the best thermal around !
Excellent video!
Hi Liam. I really appreciate the close-ups of these birds and your detailed info on their habits etc. We have lots of Buzzards where live in Bulgaria, but I cannot get close to them as I can with your footage. Thanks
Thanks Christopher! Im glad you enjoyed the video although some of the footage isnt mine. I use what footage I have and supplement it with creative commons footage when I need to. The narration and editing is all me though.
@@AShotOfWildlife It is the combination of the video-footage and your detailed information that makes the whole worthwhile to me. Keep it up, Liam.
they are beautiful 💗 also loving the experimentation with your new look! took me ages to figure out what was different lol
Incredible stuff mate.
Fabulous video as ever. I came here from your Barn Owl video. We used to have a pair of Barn Owls that hunted the meadows beyond our garden here on the Norfolk Suffolk border. They disappeared when a pair of Buzzards moved in. They were there for a few years then disappeared and the Barn Owls returned for just one summer before the Buzzards returned. We have Red Kites slowly moving in from the west, currently about 20 miles away.
Awesome. Gorgeous birds. I learned a lot. Thanks.
Great, thank you.
Thank you so much 🌻
Hi there here in our lovely Welsh village and surrounding area we have so many fantastic Buzzards along with stunning Kites that fly as high they disappear. Thank you for sharing your video and your knowledge on the great birds. Excellent channel. 🙋🙋🙋🙋🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
Great video! Buzzards seem to be taking to urban life as well - I've just been watching one play with a crow over central Sheffield, and there are two pairs who regularly meet near my allotment.
Thank you great vidio, i see them every day,all the best.
My Dad had a pair DV (darth vader) & Nibbler male.. they were great,,, Loved them XXX
Great film, I see loads of Buzzards in the woods near my home.
What a great video. Keep them coming!
I love their cry, like little eagles.
Nice video, the numbers surprised me.Top stuff.
Wonderful,the best thing I’m likely to see today
Privileged to watch these beautiful creatures over the field behind my garden.
Great presentation and informative 👍
Thank you very much.
Good watch 👍🏻
Never used to see Buzzards here in S.E. of England around 30 or more years ago,Kestrels where a common sight.Have not seen a kestrel for years but Sparrowhawks,Buzzards and even seen a Hobby one time,Red Kites are now a common sight(much to my delight).Ive noticed the change in bird populations over the years.Greenfinches,Song Thrush,Linnets,Coal tit,Lapwing,Sky Lark which where all common spots are no longer seen,even notice Chaffinch,House Sparrows and Starlings have declined drasticaly but Goldfinch,Long tailed tit,Great spotted woodpecker,Mistle Thrush have increased...
Superb video. We have at least 8 in our locality. Never knew most of this. Thanks for sharing
Lots of these here in Cyprus and some eagles too. Great video, thanks.
Wonderful my friend excellent information 👏
Lovely video thanks so much. Just saw one outside and had to look up what it was
Love this lads enthusiasm
Thank you!
Great, thanks
Nice. Thanks.
Thanks for a great informative video. We have buzzards here in the Glens of Antrim. Interestingly they’re seen as an indicator of soil health as high counts of earthworms are only present in healthy soils.
I was unaware of their winter diet & always wondered why they were in my fields mid winter.
A local bird expert enlightened me. 👍
Cheers. Im glad you enjoyed the video.
They seem to be growing more and more common around here but there are a lot of roads so I suspect they do pretty well from roadkill, regardless of our local soil quality.
I'm fortunate enough to regularly see sometimes 4 or 5 Buzzards together. They nested in trees just a few hundred yards down the road from me last year. I was also lucky enough to see their aerial mating display.
A few years ago I was lucky enough to see 15 buzzards all using one thermal here in St Hillary Penzance Cornwall,it was mind blowing 👌👌👌😀😀😀
Great stuff Liam
Really enjoyed it and learnt some new info👍👍
Never seen them searching for worms. Amazing footage
I think my favourite sound is that mew mew call. So evocative!!
Thanks for sharing mate 👍👍👍
Thank you. I’m glad you learnt something new and enjoyed the video. I’ve seen them in fields various times over the years but didn’t realise what they were after until fairly recently.
@@AShotOfWildlife that’s amazing. Never seen that before and I’m out all the time - absolutely brilliant 👏👏👏👏
They are very clever.
I live in the Black Country, in the West Midlands, and we do have buzzards! This is partly because Birmingham and the Black Country are surprisingly green, with many trees, and in the Black Country we have Local Nature Reserves.
Great video and beautiful birds 👍😁
Thanks for watching, im glad you enjoyed it!
This bird stayed in my garden for some hours today 😉 it would be cool if he came back
They get bullied by crows here, you would think they would put up a fight but the crow usually drives them off
Excellent captures there Liam! We have so many buzzards now! When i was a lad back in the 60s and 70s we had none here. Ah I see it was another guy got the drone shots. No worries. Still a super video.
Thanks.
Nice video Mate
I worked in Whitby for two years they was 4 buzzards in Forest next to where I was working They always stuck together and could fly from one side of the valley to the other with only flapping their wings 2 to 3 times there was a black kite to which was quite a rare bird
I can always see buzzards in the air. The common buzzards in europe are called Hawks in some countries, and thats indeed true since they are Hawks being closely related to the red tailed hawk. They are tough to be predators on chickens but that's indeed not true, their died is made out of rodents, rabbits and pheasant, they also eat dead animal carcasses, chickens also seem good but they are risky beacuse of humans, and chickens typically don't overreact when buzzard is around, rooster might alert but nothing special. What really does hunt chickens are sparrowhawks and goshawks, that's when chickens get really nervous and scream and alert everything
See these all over now and as a kid in 80s and 90s never seen or heard them anywhere where I live. Was fishing about 8 odd years ago and this buzzard was sitting on this telegraph pole and this kestrel sat on the next one down, and all of sudden the kestrel flies at this buzzard and clears it off the area and even though it was 3 times bigger the buzzard took off for the hills.
Great video, entertaining and educational 👍🏻
Thanks and thanks for letting me use your footage. Hopefully you’ll get a few new viewers from the link I’ve put.
thanks
Very nice video, you're narrating brilliant 👏
Cheers John!
Another cracking video Liam 🍻
Thankyou!
I’ve had Sparrow hawks doing their thing. Got home and on the back lawn it looked like a Pigeon had stood on a landmine. Since then its had another 4 or 5. It seems to lull them and me as well, the pigeons are walking around and dozing in the flower beds dreaming about seeds and cake thinking they’re safe then suddenly BOOM the hawks are back in town.
I see buzzards all the time round my house getting mobbed by jackdaws and it’s nice to see them on a summers day gliding on the thermals making their mewing calls
wery good video
Luv seeing buzzards hovering, kestrels too. I hope you might add something on the wee Wren somtime because I don't know alot about them & am a fan of the wee Robin. Nevertheless great info ty
0:12 it felt like I was being stared at by the purest death.
your videos are really informative, there's a lot of info there isn't space for in a bird book. Thanks
Happy buzzards day- March 15, 2024 also the one with the white was pretty looked like an owl
Another great video. I rarely see birds of prey, aside from the odd Kestrel here and there. Not sure I have ever seen a Buzzard. I must try and spot them!
Hi Liam, got an amazing [to me] story about a Buzzard local to a couple of acres of land I used to mow for my Son.
I'd seen the a 'couple' and when I first started mowing, one would always fly off....
It gradually got used to the noise and, I used to wave to it and send positive waves it's/their way.
One day, during the Zen peace of a ride on mower, I noticed a frog hopping away to my right.
I knew the Buzzard was watching so I got off, and walked back to the frog, waved to the Buzzard on his fave bough, and pointed to the frog in the grass...I got back on the mower and carried on. In my minds eye, I saw the Buzzard swoop down on the frog.
I looked over my shoulder and, guess what?
The Buzzard was on the ground exactly as I had seen it in my head....
That is a crazy story. They do have fantastic eyes so it was probably watching you and noticed the frog when you pointed. Thanks for sharing
@@AShotOfWildlife Thanks for the reply Liam... Yes, there are plenty of interesting Fowl and animals right on our doorsteps!
Disclaimer
I like animals better than people...
@@whisthpo you're welcome. I'd love to reply to everyone all the time but at the moment my videos are (thankfully) doing really well so I could never keep up.
I am lucky in that I love people and animals about half and half, getting them together is the perfect mix for me.
@@AShotOfWildlife Well said Liam. I am attracted to both..
Totally agree
Have been associated with both all my life! 👍
I love it when you are in the midst of the British countryside and what you can hear is what sounds like sound effects of a spaghetti western.
I didn’t know I NEEDED to know these things about buzzards.
Well now you do :D
Very informative and interesting.I have a Buzzard Near where I live in Cheshire lots of woodland & farm fields.I watch it regular .I have not seen it for quite a while now though.Hope it's ok?I loved watching it soaring.😊
Cheers. Hopefully you will see your local one again soon!
Brilliant my favourite birds are Robin and Owl
Hello. If you look on thus channel there is a video like this but about Robins which you'll probably enjoy :)
Oh I did enjoy watching these magnificent birds , always a joy to see ..We are lucky to have quite a few in Berlin . I usually see them pre sunset around first / farm land ..Have a great weekend : 👍🌲
Thanks Helena! They are beautiful birds and quite easy to see which is great. I’m glad you liked the video. Have a great week :)
@@AShotOfWildlife You are the best and it was a terrific :)
Kiitos!
Thanks!
Nice
I try a couple times a week to get good shots of these in the wild here in Germany. I hear them all over the place. But how you got these shots os absolutely beyond me.
Any tips on where to go bird spotting in (western) Germany?
Excellent video Liam thank you very much, I’ve loved to watch buzzards my life and nowadays they are common all over Britain which is fantastic. When I was a kid you could only see them if you went to places like South Wales or the Lake District but now I see them regularly even in the Midlands. By the way, I also fly a drone and I think you need to be careful mentioning drones and filming wildlife because really it’s a bit of a no-no. In fact one of the questions one has to answer to get a flying ID from the CA A is about flying a drone and wildlife. It is against the code to fly a drone to view wildlife. However when you are flying sometimes you do encounter birds but it is best to keep out of their way and come down if they get too close.
Another fine video. Its always a joy to get out of town and see a Buzzard, we don't get many sightings in Hackney!
Cheers Ian.
In the new year I plan on doing a bit more traveling around the country so might be in London for a bit. If I do, ill give you a shout and hope you can recommend some good wildlife spots for me to visit.
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Brilliant I loved the video,
I am lucky enough to live out in the country and love to see these majestic birds in the wild.
Could you tell me why the crows attack them so much ?
As a species they seem to be doing well.
Thanks for the great videos please keep them coming.
They are amazing to see in flight. I saw a pair recently in a field catching worms 🪱
Cool. Thanks for commenting :)
On the Shropshire / Powys border we regularly see 50+ buzzards following the plough.
Great creatures, we have a few in our area. One loves to patrol the seashore, patrolling at around twenty feet, though mostly the pair of them can be seen hovering over the fields about a mile inland.
v nice
I live in west Manchester, and I’m always amazed at the number of Buzzards we regularly see around here.
A couple of years ago I was repeatedly bullied by a buzzard on my walk to work, on one occasion it swooped down on my blind side and gave me quite a whack on the head. I had to walk with a stick pointed up to force it to swoop higher.
i come from derbyshire. up until about a decade ago they were relatively infrequent, but now we see them most days.
Such amazing birds, we have a few around our area that seem to return each year, usually being chased off by the rooks 🙂
Cheers! I hope you enjoyed the video.
@@AShotOfWildlife always really enjoy these types of videos and full of facts 🙂