A great opportunist, Eurasian Buzzards (Buteo buteo) have a varied diet of voles, small rodents, birds, frogs, lizards and can often be seen walking over recently ploughed fields looking for worms and insects.
Most prey are captured after a descent from a perch, but this species also soars to locate potential food, and it also hovers like a Kestrel.
Pairs mate for life.
While the plumage is usually brown, the exact colouration and patterning is highly variable, from blackish-brown to pale whitish-brown.

The eastern subspecies of the Eurasian Buzzard, known as the Steppe Buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus) is found from Finland and Eastern Europe to Central Asia during breeding season, and winters in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of India. 
It differs somewhat physiologically from the western subspecies, as it is smaller with a length between 45-50 cm, but with longer wings and tail. 
Like other Eurasian Buzzards, Steppe Buzzards also show great variation in color but can generally be recognized by the rufous or buffy-brown coloration of the upper- and underparts. 
The tail feathers of the Steppe Buzzard is often rufous in appearance whereas tail feathers of the western buzzards are typically whitish.
Steppe-Buzzards can be recognized by the rufous or buffy-brown general coloration of upper- and under-parts.
Young individuals often have a heavily streaked breast (like on the 1st photo).

1st photo: Chachuna Managed Reserve, Georgia, 6 May 2024
2nd photo: Vashlovani National Park, Georgia, 9 May 2024