Buteo nitidus  (Latham, 1790) 
 
 
B. n. blakei  Hellmayr & Conover, 1949 
 
 
B. n. pallidus  (Todd, 1915) 
 
 
B. n. plagiatus  (Schlegel, 1862) 
 
  
 
Buteo lineatus  (Gmelin, 1788) 
 
 
B. l. alleni  Ridgway, 1885 
 
 
B. l. elegans  Cassin, 1855 
 
 
B. l. extimus  Bangs, 1920 
 
 
B. l. texanus  Bishop, 1912 
 
  
 
Buteo ridgwayi  (Cory, 1883) 
 
 
Buteo platypterus  (Vieillot, 1823) 
 
 
B. p. antillarum  Clark, 1905 
 
 
B. p. brunnescens  Danforth & Smyth, 1935 
 
 
B. p. cubanensis  Burns, 1911 
 
 
B. p. insulicola  Riley, 1908 
 
 
B. p. rivierei  Verrill, 1905 
 
  
 
Buteo brachyurus  Vieillot, 1816 
 
 
B. b. fuliginosus  Sclater, 1858 
 
  
 
Buteo albigula  Philippi, 1899 
 
 
Buteo albicaudatus  Vieillot, 1816 
 
B. a. albicaudatus  
Buteo albicaudatus albicaudatus ;  [AVTAX ];  [CoL ]   
 
  
 
B. a. colonus  Berlepsch, 1892 
Buteo albicaudatus colonus ;  [AVTAX ];  [CoL ]   
 
  
 
B. a. hypospodius  Gurney, 1876 
Buteo albicaudatus hypospodius ;  [AVTAX ];  [CoL ]   
 
  
  
 
Buteo galapagoensis  (Gould, 1837) 
 
 
Buteo polyosoma  (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) 
 
B. p. polyosoma  
Buteo polyosoma polyosoma ;  [AVTAX ];  [CoL ]   
 
  
 
  
 
Buteo poecilochrous  Gurney, 1879 
 
 
Buteo albonotatus  Kaup, 1847 
 
 
Buteo solitarius  Peale, 1848 
 
 
Buteo jamaicensis  (Gmelin, 1788) 
 
 
B. j. alascensis  Grinnell, 1909 
 
 
B. j. borealis  (Gmelin, 1788) 
 
 
B. j. calurus  Cassin, 1855 
 
 
B. j. costaricensis  Ridgway, 1874 
 
 
B. j. fuertesi  Sutton & Van Tyne, 1935 
 
 
B. j. fumosus  Nelson, 1898 
 
 
B. j. hadropus  Storer, 1962 
 
 
B. j. harlani  (Audubon, 1830) 
 
 
B. j. kemsiesi  Oberholser, 1959 
 
 
B. j. kriderii  Hoopes, 1873 
 
 
B. j. socorroensis  Nelson, 1898 
 
 
B. j. solitudinis  Barbour, 1935 
 
 
B. j. suttoni  Dickerman, 1993 
Buteo jamaicensis suttoni ;  [AVTAX ];  [CoL ]   
 
  
 
B. j. umbrinus  Bangs, 1901 
 
  
 
Buteo ventralis  Gould, 1837 
 
 
Buteo buteo  (Linnaeus, 1758) 
  Common Buzzard 
  Buzzard 
  Hiirihaukka 
 
 
 
B. b. bannermani  Swann, 1919 
 
 
B. b. harterti  Swann, 1919 
 
 
B. b. insularum  Floericke, 1903 
 
 
B. b. menetriesi  Bogdanov, 1879 
 
 
B. b. pojana  (Savi, 1831) 
 
 
B. b. vulpinus  (Gloger, 1833) 
 
  
 
Buteo japonicus  Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 
 
 
B. j. oshiroi  Kuroda,Nagahisa, 1971 
 
 
B. j. toyoshimai  Momiyama, 1927 
 
  
 
Buteo burmanicus  Hume, 1875 
 
 
Buteo oreophilus  Hartert & Neumann, 1914 
 
 
Buteo trizonatus  Rudebeck, 1957 
 
 
Buteo brachypterus  Hartlaub, 1860 
 
 
Buteo rufinus  (Cretzschmar, 1829) 
  Long-legged Buzzard 
  Arohiirihaukka 
 
 
B. r. rufinus  Cretzschmar, 1829 
 
 
B. r. cirtensis  (Levaillant, 1850) 
 
  
 
Buteo hemilasius  Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 
  Upland Buzzard 
 
 
 
Buteo regalis  (Gray, 1844) 
 
 
Buteo lagopus  (Pontoppidan, 1763) 
  Piekana 
  Rough-legged Buzzard 
 
 
 
B. l. kamtschatkensis  Dementiev, 1931 
 
 
B. l. menzbieri  Dementiev, 1951 
 
 
B. l. sanctijohannis  (Gmelin, 1788) 
 
  
 
Buteo auguralis  Salvadori, 1865 
 
 
Buteo augur  (Ruppell, 1836) 
 
 
Buteo archeri  Sclater, 1918 
 
 
Buteo rufofuscus  (Forster, 1798) 
 
  
 
 
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References: 
[AVTAX] Zoonomen 
Extracted during June 2011, for most recent information, verify using links provided;  Zoological Nomenclature Resource ;  Birds of the World -- current valid scientific avian names 
 [CoL] Catalogue of Life 
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26);  https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d 
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