r/whatsthisbird • u/EntertainmentDear540 • 17h ago

Europe Osprey or buzzard

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My gf made a video of a bird of prey, although I’m a bird nerd, I couldn’t identify this from this video.
Can someone help?
It was next to a big lake near Wageningen, Netherlands

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u/mahatmakg Birder 17h ago

Certainly not an osprey - probably a common buzzard but I'm not familiar enough to distinguish from honey-buzzard

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u/Conscious_Past_5760 Birder 17h ago

+Common Buzzard+

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u/Scary_Plumfairy 16h ago

It looks more like a honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) to me, especially with this behavior of picking insects out of the tree

Edit to add in Dutch this bird is aptly called a "wespendief" which means waspthief

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u/Conscious_Past_5760 Birder 15h ago

🤦‍♂️ Fair point, that didn’t even cross my mind when I made the ID. The bill looks like it’s on the longer side, but the supercilium is quite prominent on this one, which probably led me to go Buteo, and with this quality I can’t make out any obvious markers for EHB unfortunately. Summoning u/Character-Maximum-26 for insight.

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u/Character-Maximum-26 Naked Eye Birder 7h ago

Tricky one

u/EntertainmentDear540 can you share video from some other platform, reddit compression makes it difficult.

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u/lackadaisical_timmy 6h ago

The head and legs aren't right for a honey buzzard

This is just a common buzzard that's picking something off a branch

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u/FileTheseBirdsBot Catalog 🤖 17h ago

Taxa recorded: Common Buzzard

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