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The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium sized territorial bird of prey which measures between 51-57 cm in length and has a wing span of about 113-128 cm with a round head, dark beak and yellow cere, with yellow feet and claws. The eyes are brownish yellow to grey but change quickly and the beak is hooked from the base. The plumage is variable with a short and wide tail. In general, adult subjects are darker with white underparts, and with brown stripes turning to reddish-brown on the abdomen. Females tend to get larger than males. It feasts mainly on birds,which constitutes 42 to 75% of the biomass eaten by these raptors, followed by small mammals, snakes, batrachians, insects and sometimes even with cereals, but it can also be a scavenger (1, 8, 10, 13). It is located throughout Eurasia, including Romania, northern Africa and the Middle East. It is sedentary in Eastern Europe and during the cold seasons the local population increases due to migrations from the northern part of Eurasia (10, 18). Buzzards inhabit mountains, forests, marshlands, meadows and agricultural zones and often nest in plowed lands (8, 13, 18). The breeding season begins from the end of March and lasts until the end of April. They nest betweeen 1-4 eggs, with an average of 2.4 per season. On average, 1.9 young hatch and 1.3 juveniles fledge per breeding pair (8). The fact that they are easily spotted during winter on roadside telegraph poles and forest canopy (10) makes them easy targets, predisposing them to gunshot wounds and even road killed victims. In the common buzzard, the most common fracture cases (41%) are forearm fractures, with a 92.1% occurrence in the hunting season, in which patients with comminuted lesions have the highest mortality rate (75%) (2). Some authors suggest (3) that in 50% of forearm fractures just 1 of the 2 bones are fractured, thus implying that surgical intervention is not mandatory because healing processes are sustained by the intact bone (3). Bone grafts may also be used when substantially bone tissue is lost (9). However, for birds intended to be released back into the wild, the surgical approach is the correct one in healing avian fractures (7). In order to improve blood supply to the damaged tissues, and to accelerate the healing processes, active and passive physiotherapy techniques should be started as soon as possible. Initial physiotherapy Retrograde long bone intramedullary pinning in wing fractures of the common buzzard