Crested Honey Buzzard

The crested honey buzzard is a fairly large raptor, about 57–60 centimetres long and 750–1,490 grams, larger than the European honey buzzard. The head lacks a strong superciliary ridge, giving it a facial appearance very unlike a raptor. It looks long-necked, with a small, pigeon-like head, a long tail and a short crest. It is brown above, not as dark as the European honey buzzard, and paler below, with a dark throat stripe. Unusually for a large bird of prey the sexes can be told apart: the male has a blue-grey head with a brown iris, the female a brown head with a yellow iris. (Wikipedia, general species account)

Also called the Oriental, Asiatic or Eastern honey buzzard, it takes its name from its diet, which consists mainly of the larvae of bees and wasps extracted from combs. Six subspecies are recognised. Crested honey buzzards migrate to breed in Siberia and Japan in the summer and then spend the winter in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. (Wikipedia, general species account)