Welcome to the official website of the ‘Mystery Buzzard’!
This site has been set up to aid the current research by the Percy FitzPatrick Institute into the identity and ecology of a set of unidentified Buteo buzzards that are now resident breeders in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Please use the tabs above to explore the history of this phenomenon, learn how to identify the buzzards and view information on the current known range of the Mystery Buzzard.
Any information on sightings and especially nest sites of Mystery Buzzards and Forest Buzzards (around Knysna and east of there) would be received with great appreciation.
Any information on sightings and especially nest sites of Mystery Buzzards and Forest Buzzards (around Knysna and east of there) would be received with great appreciation.
Thank you!
Lisle Gwynn BSc (Hons)
Percy FitzPatrick Institute
Possibly the first or second record of this species for the Western Cape. Seen on 8th December 2011 in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Later seen again on the eastern slopes, 16th December 2011.
Percy FitzPatrick Institute
Incidental Sighting
Lesser Spotted Eagle - Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town
Lesser Spotted Eagle - Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town
Possibly the first or second record of this species for the Western Cape. Seen on 8th December 2011 in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Later seen again on the eastern slopes, 16th December 2011.
