| Grey-faced buzzard | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Butastur |
| Species: | B. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Butastur indicus (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
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| Violet: breeding; Red: non-breeding | |
The grey-faced buzzard (Butastur indicus) is an Asian bird of prey. It is typically 41–46 cm (16–18 in) in length, making it a small-sized raptor. It breeds in Manchuria, Korea and Japan; it winters in South-east Asia.
It is a bird of open land. It eats lizards, small mammals and large insects.
The adult has a grey head, breast and neck, white throat, black moustaches and mesial stripes, brown back and upperwings, and brown bars on white underparts and underwings. The juvenile is brown and mottled above, pale below with brown streaks, and has a broad white supercilium and brown face.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Butastur indicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22695726A93525673. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22695726A93525673.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.