Eastern Marsh Harrier
The Eastern Marsh Harrier is a bird of prey belonging to the marsh harrier group of harriers. It was previously considered to be conspecific with the Western Marsh Harrier but is now usually classified as a separate species. i managed to shoot one with a juicy field rat in Batang Tiga with JT.
Eastern Marsh Harriers are migrants to Malaysia mashland, and padi fields The breeding range covers north-east China, Mongolia and south-east Siberia with small numbers in northern Japan.There is some overlap with Western Marsh Harrier around Lake Baikal and interbreeding has taken place.
The wintering range includes southern China, Taiwan Korea, southern Japan, north-east India, Bangladesh and South-east Asia as far south as the Philippines, Borneo and Sumatra.Large numbers of birds migrate along the Chinese coast with thousands passing through sites like Beida during the autum.
Just spotted one of these raiding a bee hive in our lime tree.
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