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The study of a nest of Long‑legged Buzzard  Buteo rufinus  was carried out using a trail camera and is one piece of a completely unknown jigsaw puzzle of diet and nesting behaviour in Romania. With a hatching success of 75%, we identified 3 hatched chicks from the 4 eggs. During the 10 days of monitoring, 34 preys brought to the nest were identified, with a peak of activity between 11:00–17:00 and a preference for the European Ground Squirrel  Spermophilus citellus  (61.76%). This was followed by the Domestic Pigeon  Columba livia  f.  domestica  and the Common Wood Pigeon  C. palumbus  (5.88%), and amphibians were represented by the European Green Toad  Bufotes viridis  (2.94%). There were 10 unidentified prey species (29.41%). We identified the presence of plastic and textile fibres in the nest and the risk of chick suffocation. We also improved our understanding of interspecific interactions and our observations highlighted the mutualism between the three species in the nest: Spanish Sparrow, House Sparrow and LLB. The removal of solitary trees from the agricultural landscape is a major threat in south‑western Romania, affecting the breeding population of the LLB, which, as in our case, nests on this type of support.

Preliminary data on the diet composition and nesting behaviour of the Long‑legged Buzzard ( Buteo rufinus ) in south‑western Romania