Common Buzzards are the UK's most widespread and common Bird of Prey. They breed in every UK county.
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| Common Buzzard [Source: Arend from Oosterhout, Netherlands] |
Buzzard
numbers are up dramatically since the 1960s, from 16,000 in 1966 to
70,000 now.1
This is linked to rabbits gaining resistance to myxomatosis in the
1950s. They spread out from the hilly woodsides of the north and
west of the country to the flatter south and east in the late
twentieth century, as this
infographic shows.
