болотный лунь/Western marsh harrier facts | Eurasian marsh harrier

The western marsh harrier is a large harrier, a bird of prey from temperate and subtropical western Eurasia and adjacent Africa. It is also known as the Eurasian marsh harrier. The western marsh harrier is often divided into two subspecies, the widely migratory one, which is found across most of its range, and one which is resident all-year in north-west Africa. It is a large, bulky harrier, larger than other European harriers but slightly smaller than the eastern marsh harrier, with fairly broad wings, and has a strong and peculiar sexual dichromatism. The male’s plumage is mostly a cryptic reddish-brown with lighter yellowish streaks, which are particularly prominent on the breast. The head and shoulders are mostly pale greyish-yellowish. The rectrices and the secondary and tertiary remiges are pure grey, the latter contrasting with the brown forewing and the black primary remiges at the wingtips. The upperside and underside of the wing look similar, though the brown is lighter on the underwing. Whe