- The black-breasted
buzzard (Hamirostra
melanosternon) is a
large raptor endemic to
mainland Australia.
First described by John
Gould in 1841, it forms...
- Zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) Black-breasted
buzzard (Hamirostra
melanosternon) Black-chested buzzard-eagle (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) Gr****hopper...
-
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 break...
- honey-buzzard
Pernis ptilorhynchus vagrant Black-breasted kite
Hamirostra melanosternon Long-tailed honey-buzzard
Henicopernis longicauda vagrant Square-tailed...
- main
confusion species is
often the black-breasted kite (Hamirostra
melanosternon),
which is
surprisingly similar in
colouring but is much
smaller with...
-
might also be
confused with the black-breasted
buzzard (Hamirostra
melanosternon), but this
species is much smaller, has
white patches on the wings,...
- IUCN.
Retrieved 2012-12-12.
BirdLife International (2012). "Hamirostra
melanosternon". IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species.
Version 2012.2. IUCN. Retrieved...
- recognized, the
nominate D. l.
langsdorffi (Temminck, 1821) and D. l.
melanosternon (Gould, 1868). The black-bellied
thorntail weighs about 3.2 g (0.11 oz)...
- with the
superficially dissimilar black-breasted
buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon and square-tailed kite
Lophoictinia isura as one of the Australasian...
- 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 species...
