Confirmation of Breeding of the Long-Legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus, Levaillant, J, 1850) in Western and Eastern Libya

Date

2025-8

Type

Article

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Issue

Vol. 2 No. 7

Author(s)

KHALED SALEM EMHEMED ETAYEB


Pages

40 - 42

Abstract

The Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus), particularly the North African breeding subspecies B. r. cirtensis, has long been suspected to breed across Libya, though precise breeding localities remained undocumented or poorly verified. This article provides the first confirmed breeding records from two distinct locations in Libya: the western region near Bani Waleed and the eastern region in Wadi Annagha in Derna and Tokhara suburb of the city of Labraq.

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