The black-breasted buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon) is a large raptor endemic to mainland Australia. First described by John Gould in 1841, it forms...

Square-tailed kite, Lophoictinia isura Genus Hamirostra Black-breasted buzzard, Hamirostra melanosternon A few of the traditional Perninae are also called...

albigula) Zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) Black-breasted buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon) Black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) Grasshopper...

motionless. Brooding females may be driven from the egg by the raptor Hamirostra melanosternon, the blackbreasted kite, who are able to throw or drop stones to...

goshawk with the superficially dissimilar black-breasted buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon and square-tailed kite Lophoictinia isura as one of the Australasian...

They might also be confused with the black-breasted buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon), but this species is much smaller, has white patches on the wings...

(Linn. 1758) E. f. yetapa(Vieillot, 1818) Hamirostra Brown, 1846 Black-breasted buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon Lophoictinia Kaup, 1847 Square-tailed kite...

only main confusion species is often the black-breasted kite (Hamirostra melanosternon), which is surprisingly similar in colouring but is much smaller...

square-tailed kite (Lophoictinia isura) and black-breasted buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon), all sharing a 3-base-pair deletion in the RAG-1 gene. The four...

Lophoictinia isura (Gould, 1838) 31 Black-breasted buzzard Accipitridae Hamirostra melanosternon (Gould, 1841) 32 African cuckoo-hawk Accipitridae Aviceda cuculoides...