After spending more than a century without a name, the Socotra Buzzard Buteo socotraensis has at last been named officially, in a paper published in the June issue of Bull. BOC by Richard Porter and Guy Kirwan (Studies of Socotran Birds VI: the taxonomic status of the Socotra Buzzard). Like all other members of the B. buteo superspecies, it is poorly differentiated genetically from most Old World ...
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