Bird Feeding Snake To Chicks - Grey Faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus)

A video about bird feeding snake to chicks. This is a family of grey faced buzzards; there are 3 chicks in the nest. The bird of prey is eating a snake and carefully sharing it between the nestlings.
The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey. It is typically between 41 and 46 cm in length, making it a medium-sized raptor. It breeds in Manchuria, Korea and Japan; and winters in South-east Asia.
It is a bird of open land. It eats lizards, small mammals and large insects. It is normal when these birds are eating snakes. Snakes are one of the staple foods for birds of prey.

The majority of the species are found in Japan. During the breeding season the male buzzards spend up to 90% of their day perched searching for prey. Their hunting perch us usually located around 500 meters away from the nest. They feed on frogs, crustaceans, lizards, insects, small rodents and occasionally other birds. They perch on a tree or a utility pole adjacent to an open habitat, such as rice fields, cropland, and clearings. They have adopted a search and ambush hunting method to waste less time and energy but still receive enough to survive.

During the breeding season the grey faced buzzard builds a small stick nest placed in a tree. Clutch size is 3-4 white eggs with rusty or reddish-brown spots. They breed in eastern China, eastern Russia, Japan, and in winter mainly in Indochina, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The same nest is sometimes used every year until the need of reconstruction arises. Females mostly incubate eggs and nestlings. Males relieve females briefly a few times a day. Eggs hatch from late May to early June about a month after they were laid. Nestlings fledge from late June to Early July about 35 days after hatching. Fledglings are fed by the parent birds around the nest for about two weeks, and then become independent, starting to move a long distance.

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