Common Buzzard: In winter

The Buzzard is a partial migrant: some individuals overwinter in Sweden while others migrate.

• Southern Swedish birds: many remain in the farmland districts and hunt voles from roadsides, power poles and fence posts.
• Northern birds: individuals from Norrland are pronounced short-distance migrants and winter in southern Europe and North Africa.
• Winter food: carrion becomes especially important during cold spells, and animals killed on roads attract wintering buzzards.

Seeing a Buzzard watching from a field edge is therefore quite possible even in the middle of winter in southern Sweden.

More about the Common Buzzard

• Song & calls
• Breeding
• Nest & eggs
• Diet