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.

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) [XC365262]
by Frank Lambert from Liwonde NP southern area, Machinga, Southern Region, Malawi (call)

Western Banded Snake Eagle (Circaetus cinerascens) [XC719017]
by Derek Solomon from Mole National Park, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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

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