Long-crested eagle

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Long-crested eagle
Long-crested Eagle.jpg
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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Lophaetus

Kaup, 1847
Species:
L. occipitalis
Binomial name
Lophaetus occipitalis
(Daudin, 1800)

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The long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It is currently placed in a monotypic genus Lophaetus.

A relatively small eagle (about 55 cm), found in Africa south of the Sahara, except in the arid zones. In southern Africa it is a fairly common resident in the eastern areas. It inhabits woodlands, exotic plantations, forest edges and mainly lives off rodents and shrews.

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