Western Banded Snake-Eagle (Circaetus cinerascens)

Other Names (World)
Western Banded Snake-Eagle, Banded Snake-Eagle, Smaller Banded Snake-Eagle, Banded Harrier-Eagle, Western Banded Snake Eagle

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
60 cm

First Described (Guide)
von M�ller, 1851

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Senegambia east to southern Sudan and western Ethiopia, then south to R Zambezi, occurring south to Angola and Namibia in west, and Zimbabwe and Zambia in east.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Western Banded Snake Eagle (Circaetus cinerascens) [XC398348]
by Derek Solomon from dam west of Chisamba, Central province, Zambia (call)

Western Banded Snake Eagle (Circaetus cinerascens) [XC365262]
by Frank Lambert from Liwonde NP southern area, Machinga, Southern Region, Malawi (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Western Banded Snake-Eagle (Circaetus cinerascens) - 10 files

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