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    (c) Анна Голубева, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Melvin Jaison, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Ritesh Khabia, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Анна Голубева, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Aleksey Levashkin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Deepak Goswami, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Pallid Harrier

Circus macrourus

IUCN Red List status: Near threatened

IUCN Red List status

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4,909 observations
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Birds

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iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

The pale or pallid harrier (Circus macrourus) is a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family. The scientific name is derived from the Ancient Greek. Circus is from kirkos, referring to a bird of prey named for its circling flight (kirkos, "circle"), probably the hen harrier and macrourus is "long-tailed", from makros, "long" and -ouros "-tailed".

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