Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Oriental Honey-buzzard

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Order - Accipitriformes
Family - Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Oriental Honey-buzzard

Pernis ptilorhynchus

凤头蜂鹰 (fèng-tóu fēng-yīng) / 东方蜂鹰 (dōngfāng fēng-yīng)

Malay : Helang-Lebah Asia

Japanese : ハチクマ (Hachi-kuma)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 蜂熊 / 蜂角鷹

Size : 52–68 cm; Wingspan 115–155 cm

Male 750–1280 g, Female 950–1490 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Pernis ptilorhynchus orientalis (Taczanowski, 1891) – Eastern Honey-buzzard
– SC Siberia E to Amurland and Sakhalin, S to NE China, Japan and Korea; winters SE Asia S to Greater and Lesser Sundas, Philippines and Sangihe, also very small numbers farther W (e.g. regular on passage through S Kazakhstan), possibly wintering E Africa.
Pernis ptilorhynchus ruficollis (Lesson, 1830)
– Indus Valley (Pakistan), India and Sri Lanka E through Myanmar to SC China (Yunnan) and most of Indochina.
Pernis ptilorhynchus torquatus (Lesson, 1830)
– extreme SW Indochina, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.
Pernis ptilorhynchus ptilorhynchus (Temminck, 1821) – Indomalayan Honey-buzzard
– Java.
Pernis ptilorhynchus philippensis (Mayr, 1939)
– N & E Philippines.
Pernis ptilorhynchus palawanensis (Stresemann, 1940)
– W Philippines (Calauit and Palawan).