Kites, Hawks, Eagles
Black-chested Snake Eagle
Circaetus pectoralis
The Black-chested Snake Eagle (Circaetus pectoralis) is a 1.5 kg woodland bird that eats mostly other vertebrates. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Kites, Hawks, Eagles
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Weight
- 1.5 kg
- Habitat
- Woodland
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 15
Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Malawi, Angola, Rwanda, eSwatini, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Where to see it: Maasai Mara NR · Mara Triangle (Kenya); Serengeti NP (Tanzania); Auto selected 5.28882, 35.82904 (South Sudan); Awash NP · southern section (Ethiopia); Rietvlei NR (South Africa).
Photo: Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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