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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
22/05/2024 02:31:21 AM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Long-crested Eagle*
Id (Atlas):
Lophaetus occipitalis
Description (10 )
Long-crested Eagle
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Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)
Size
58 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Daudin, 1800)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry savanna.
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Senegambia east to Ethiopia and south to northern Namibia, northern Botswana and eastern South Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (29)... )
Listen to XC728108
Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis ) [XC728108 ]
by Oliver Fowler from Makana Local Municipality (near Makhanda), Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)
Listen to XC197949
Long-crested Eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis ) [XC197949 ]
by Lynette Rudman from Greytown, (South) Umzinyathi DC, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (flight call)
Subspecies
Monotypic genus, but may belong within genus Spizaetus .
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Long-crested Eagle see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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