Complex sentence: The Long-legged Buzzard ("Buteo rufinus") prefers the dry open plains of Turkey, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary and feeds mostly on small rodents, although it will also take lizards, snakes, small birds and large insects.
Split into simpler sentences: The Long-legged Buzzard ("Buteo rufinus") is a bird of prey. It prefers the dry open plains of Turkey, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary and feeds mostly on small rodents, although it will also take lizards, snakes, small birds and large insects.