Taxonomic status:

Species status: full species (sometimes a subspecies)

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Buteo [buteo, refectus, japonicus, bannermani or socotraensis] (sensu lato) by some authors

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Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.

Afrikaans: Bruinjakkalsvoël (Kaap Verdiese)
Arabic: حوام شائع (bannermani)
Asturian: Buzacu común (bannermani)
Azerbaijani: Adi sar (bannermani)
Bulgarian: Обикновен мишелов (ssp. bannermani)
Bengali: কাফু হবদীয় চত঳াফাজ
Bengali (transliteration): kābu bhērdīẏa tisābāja*
Catalan: aligot comú (bannermani), Aligot de Cap Verd
Czech: káně kapverdská, káně lesní (ssp. bannermani)
Welsh: Bwncath Cabo Verde
Danish: Kap Verde Musvåge, Kap Verde-musvåge, Musvåge (Kap Verde)
German: Kapverdenbussard, Mäusebussard (Kapverdenbussard)
Greek: Γερακίνα (Πράσινου Ακρωτηρίου)
English: Cape Verde Buzzard, Cape Verde Common Buzzard, Common Buzzard (Cape Verde)
[ENAV]: Common Buzzard (Cape Verde)
English, HBW: Eurasian Buzzard (Cape Verde)
English (IOC): Cape Verde Buzzard
English (United States): Cape Verde Buzzard, Common Buzzard (Cape Verde)
English (South Africa): Steppe Buzzard (Cape Verde)
Esperanto: kaboverda buteo, Verdkaba buteo
Spanish: Busardo de Cabo Verde, Busardo Ratonero (Cabo Verde), Busardo ratonero de Cabo Verde
Spanish (Spain): Busardo de Cabo Verde, Busardo ratonero (Cabo Verde)
Spanish (HBW): Cape Verde Buzzard
Estonian: kapverdi hiireviu
Basque: Zapelatz arrunta (bannermani)
Persian: سارگپه معمولی (bannermani)
Finnish: Kapverdenhiirihaukka
French: Buse du Cap Vert, Buse du Cap-Vert, Buse variable (bannermani)
French (Guyane): Buse variable (bannermanni)
Irish: Clamhán Rinn Verde
Galician: Buxato común (bannermani), Miñato de Cabo Verde
Hebrew: עקב כף ורדה
Croatian: škanjac (kapski), Zelenortski škanjac
Hungarian: Egerészölyv (bannermani)
Armenian: Մեծ ճուռակ (bannermani)
Icelandic: Músvákur (bannermani)
Italian: Poiana di Capo Verde
Japanese (romaji): keapuberudenosuri, ke-puberudenosuri
Japanese: ケアプベルデノスリ, ケープベルデノスリ, ヨーロッパノスリ（bannermani）
Kazakh: Жамансары (Кабо Верде)
Kirghiz: Кадимки сары (Cape Verde)
Scientific: Buteo bannermani, Buteo buteo bannermani, Buteo rufinus bannermani
Lithuanian: Paprastasis suopis (bannermani), Žaliojo kyšulio suopis
Latvian: Kaboverdes klijāns
Dutch: (Kaapverdische) buizerd, Kaapverdische Buizerd
Norwegian Nynorsk: Kappverdevåk
Norwegian: Kappverdevåk, musvåk (bannermani)
Polish: myszołów zielonoprzylądkowy
Portuguese: Águia-d'asa-redonda-de-cabo-verde, Busardo-ratonero-de-cabo-verde
Portuguese (Açores): Águia-d'asa-redonda (bannermani)
Portuguese (Madeira): Manta (bannermani)
Portuguese (Portugal): Águia-d'asa-redonda (bannermani), Asa-curta, bútio-de-cabo-verde
Rhaeto-Romance: Girun dal Cap Verd
Romanian: Șorecar comun (bannermani)
Russian: Кабовердский канюк, Канюк (bannermani)
Slovak: myšiak hôrny (kapverdský), myšiak kapverdský
Slovenian: Kanja (Zelenortska), Zelenortska kanja
Serbian: Zelenortski mišar, Zelenortski mišar (bannermani)
Swedish: kapverdevråk, ormvråk (kapverdevråk)
Thai: เหยี่ยวทะเลทรายตะวันตก (เคปเวิร์ด)
Turkish: Kap Verd şahini, Şahin (bannermani)
Ukrainian: Канюк звичайний (підвид bannermani), канюк кабо-вердійський, Канюк капо-вердійський
Chinese: 佛得角鵟, 欧亚鵟 (bannermani)
Chinese (Traditional): 歐亞鵟(bannermani), 維德角鵟