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Originally a YouTube video ("A rare bird has become a tourist attraction")
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-r6R6QrgBg.
This juvenile bird was rescued in September 2011.
The bird was identified as a Crested Honey Buzzard by a senior local ornithologist.
At 01:08 of this video, the bird gave rattling call
in response to human stimuli. This video has been posted here
for an easy accessibility to this special type of vocalization of this species
and for preserving the video and audio data.
Posted by permission of IKSMinusinsk and the family who rescued the bird.

[Transcription of the video (by a Russian native speaker)
expressed in Latin characters]

Neobychnyj gost' poselilsya u sem'i Mishinykh
v sele Krasnyj Khutor Shushenskogo rajona.
Na doroge sel'chane podobrali ranenogo
khokhlatogo osoeda.
Redkaya ptitsa prizhilas' v nevole i uzhe stala
mestnoj dostoprimechatell'nost'yu.

...-Tishe-tishe-tishe-spokojno!
Osoeda, kotorogo deti prozvali "Tsypoj", na progulki vyvodyat
ezhednevno. Travmirovannomu pernatomu hishchniku trebuetsya prostor. Nashli
ego okolo mesyatsa nazad po doroge v sosednij poselok. Ptitsu s perebitym
krylom prinyali za glukharya.

-Ya ee koe-kak pojmala, agressivna dostatochno byla. Nu... v kurtku ya ee
zavernula pryamo s golovoj i dazhe putem ne rassmotrela ee. Doma
uzhe rassmotrela... Tipa ne mogli ponyat', kto ona
takaya. Potom nam iz Shushenskogo uzhe
pozvonili i skazali, chto eto osoed.

Deti Sergei i Tat'yana Mishinykh
Tsypu uzhe schtitayut chlenom sem'i, no v pervye dni ego ostrogo
klyuva i kogtej, konechno, pobaivalis'. Na territorii Kraya eta ptitsa,
zimuyushchaya na Afrikanskom kontinente, vstrechaetsya krajne
redko. Kakim obrazom pojmannaya Tat'yanoj samka osoeda povredila krylo,
navsegda ostanetsya zagadkoj.
-...Tsypa-Tsypa-Tsypa...

Kak vyyasnilos', osoed etot - sladkoezhka. Ptitsa predpochitaet
kashi, khleb, izredka est myaso. No samoe izyskannoe lakomstvo -
eto med.
-Kormili inogda ochen' chasto. Kazdyj podojdet, chto-to dast.
A tak, v printsipe, prinimaet ona normal'no. Med, vot, sami
videli.

Roditeli privyazannosti detej k ptitse ne odobryayut. Osoed zhivet na
strojke, gde emu, konechno zhe, ne mesto. Skoro pernatyj khishchnik
otpravitsya v Krasnoyarskij "Roev Ruchej" i v blizhajshee vremia uvidet'
osoeda smogut vse posetiteli etogo zooparka.

Artem Okhal'nikov,
Aleksei Litovchenko
Novosti X-Minusinsk

[English translation]

* Comments by TK are given in [].

An unusual guest settled with the Mishin family
in the village of Krasny Khutor in the Shushensky district.
On the road, the villagers picked up a wounded
Crested Honey Buzzard.
A rare bird has become acclimated itself to be in captivity
and has already become a local (tourist) attraction.

...-quiet-quiet-quiet-calm!

The honey buzzard, whom the children nicknamed "Tsypa"
[=name referring to any bird in Russia], is taken out
for walks every day. An injured feathered predator needs
a (wide) space.
We found it about a month ago on the road to the neighboring
village. A bird with a broken wing was mistaken for a capercaillie.

- I somehow caught it, it was aggressive enough. Well...
I wrapped it in a jacket right over my head and I didn't
even look at it properly.
(When) I already examined it at home... we couldn't figure out
what it was. Later we were called by one of Shushensky residents
and were told that it was a honey buzzard.

Children of Sergey and Tatiana Mishin family
already considered Tsypa a member of the family,
but in the early days, they, of course, were afraid of
its sharp beak and talons.
In the territory of this Region, this bird, which
winters on the African continent [this was apparently
a misunderstanding commonly seen in a number of
media reports; the information was probably from
webpages for honey buzzards in general
("osoed" in Russian),
which usually refer to the European Honey Buzzard],
is extremely rare.
How the female [the bird was apparently a juvenile and
the sex should not have been determined] honey buzzard
caught by Tatiana damaged its wing will forever remain
a mystery.

As it turned out, this honey buzzard has a sweet tooth.
The bird prefers porridge, bread, and occasionally eats meat.
But the most exquisite delicacy is honey.

- We fed it sometimes very often. Everyone comes up and
gives something.
And doing so, in principle, it eats them fine.
(It's) Honey, here, as you saw yourself.

Parents do not approve of children's attachment to the bird.
The honey buzzard lives in a building, which, of course,
is not where it belongs to. Soon the feathered predator
will go to the Krasnoyarsk "Roev Ruchej" and in the near
future all visitors of this zoo will be able to see
the honey buzzard.

Additional explanation and species identification:

The bird was initially considered as a capercaillie
Tetrao sp. and after consultation of a senior local ornithologist,
it was identified as a Crested Honey Buzzard.
Since this bird was rescued more than ten years ago,
only one photograph of the bird
was left in addition to this video.
The video reported that the bird was transferred
to the zoo Roev Ruchej in Krasnoyarsk. Although
a honey buzzard of unknown origin is present in Roev Ruchej,
the identity of the birds was found to be unclear and
we did not study it in more detail.
The person in the video said "Tsypa-Tsypa-Tsypa..."
and the bird apparently responded to this by giving
a rattling call. "Tsypa" was not a human mimicry of
the rattling call of the bird,
but was the name of the bird, which is often used to
refer to any bird in general in Russia.

The information of the original species identification
was unavailable due to the loss of connection to
the ornithologist who identified the bird.
The yellow cere and dark tan iris are compatible with
a young honey buzzard (Forsman 2016; DeCandido et al. 2015).
Considering that young birds of the smaller European
Honey Buzzard have been confirmed to remain at least
two years before returning to Europe based on satellite tracking
(Strandberg et al. 2012; Vansteelant et al. 2017),
young birds of the larger Crested Honey Buzzard
are not expected to return to
the breeding ground in the second calendar year.
There has indeed been a single confirmed case of
a juvenile Crested Honey Buzzard remaining in the wintering
ground in the next year studied by satellite tracking
(Higuchi et al. 2005).
The color of the iris of a captive Crested Honey Buzzard
started to change in April in the second calendar year,
and the color of the cere became less vividly yellow
and some part of the cere became grayish
early in the second calendar year
(E. Medvedeva 2011, originally available on
the webpage of the Bureinsky State Nature Reserve,
Khabarovsk, Russia,
http://old.zapbureya.ru/biserov/osoed.htm but is
currently unavailable; Japanese readers may find it interesting
in reading Japanese translation of this story at
http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tkato/pub/osoed.pdf;
the original text and pictures are
available upon request to the corresponding author
by permission of the original author obtained in advance).
The colors of the iris and cere had also changed
in the Morioka bird at least in the September
in the next year.
It is therefore unlikely that the Shushensky bird with
a vividly yellow cere and a dark iris had
an age above the first calendar year based on coloration
and migration ecology.

It is known to be difficult to tell juvenile Crested
and European Honey Buzzards apart
without knowing the number of the "fingers"
in the primary flight feathers and the markings of
the underparts of the wings and tail
(see e.g., Forsman 2016).
The most distinguishing feature for species identification
of this bird is the presence of a partial "gorget"
marking under the pale throat
which is reported to be the most reliable feature of
Crested Honey Buzzard (DeCandido et al. 2015)
and which is never present in European Honey Buzzard
(Forsman 2016).
In addition, the large body size, bigger feet
(video at 1:03; see Forsman 2016 and
the presence of a short crest (video at 1:13) also favors
a Crested Honey Buzzard.
The head-to-chest colors and patterns
are also very similar to those of a juvenile
Crested Honey Buzzard studied in Primorsky Russia
(Fig. 5 in Shokhrin et al. 2020).

No records of European Honey Buzzards are present
in the literature and citizen science databases
(North Eurasia Birds Watch 2006-2022;
iNaturalist 2008-2022; Birds of Xinjiang China 2012-2022)
close to the location where the bird was rescued.
Although we cannot completely exclude the possibility
of a hybrid between these species, we consider it very
unlikely since the rescued location is far from the region of
sympatry and since
hybridization appears to be uncommon even in
the region of sympatry (Stepanyan 1983).
Neither a nest with an allospecific pair
nor genetic identification of a hybrid has yet been
reported (Winter et al. 2021).

Birds of Xinjiang China (2012-2022) https://xinjiang.birds.watch/.

DeCandido et al. (2015) Flight
identification and migration pattern of the Oriental Honey Buzzard
Pernis ptilorhynchus orientalis in southern Thailand,
2007-2014. Birding Asia 23: 27-33.

Forsman (2016) Flight identification of raptors of Europe, North
Africa and the Middle East. 2nd edn.

Higuchi et al. (2005) Migration of Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus
based on satellite tracking. Ornithol Sci 4: 119-115.

iNaturalist (2008-2022) https://www.inaturalist.org/

North Eurasia Birds Watch (2006-2022) https://north.eurasia.birds.watch/

Shokhrin et al. (2020) Breeding birds of Primorsky Krai: the crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus. Rus J Ornithol 29: 4119-4131

Stepanyan (1983) Navidy i vidy-dvojniki v avifaune SSSR
(Superspecies and Sibling Species in Avifauna of the USSR)
Nauka, Moscow.

Strandber et al. (2012) Movements of
immature European Honey Buzzards Pernis apivorus in tropical
Africa. Ardea 100: 157-162.

Vansteelant et al. (2017) Wind conditions and
geography shape the first outbound migration of juvenile honey buzzards and
their distribution across sub-Saharan Africa. Proc Biol Sci 284: 20170387.

Paper published based on this video:
Taichi KATO, Chia-Te CHIU, Die-Hua TSAI, Elena PAVLENKO, Marina KOSAREVA,
Hironobu ITOU, Haruka KONO (2023)
Ornithological Science 22(1): 97-104 (https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.22.97)

(Data No.momo211209ch01b)

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