honey buzzard
Pernis apivorus

Probably Honey Buzzards are regular passage migrants there, at least in autumn.

This species is also known as the Oriental Honey Buzzard.

Several hundred European Honey Buzzards pass through during the autumn.

It is brown above, but not as dark as Honey Buzzard, and paler below.

The nests are subject to predation by the honey buzzard, which excavates them to obtain the larvae.

The nests are also subject to predation by the European Honey Buzzard.

Rachel Garside looks at egg imports, brown hares, honey buzzards and harvest mice.

Last year, for example, an F-16 streaking just 400 feet above the floor of the Negev was unlucky enough to plow into a honey buzzard.

The male has a black tail with a white band, whilst the female resembles female Honey Buzzard.

More common species, such as the European Honey Buzzard, can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn.