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Crested serpent eagle

Spilornis cheela

Description:

Crested serpent eagle has a large looking head with long feathers on the back of the head giving them a maned and crested appearance. The face is bare and yellow joining up with the ceres while the powerful feet are unfeathered and heavily scaled. They fly over the forest canopy on broad wings and tail have wide white and black bars. They call often with a loud, piercing and familiar three or two-note call. They often feed on snakes, giving them their name and are placed along with the Circaetus snake-eagles in the subfamily Circaetinae.

Habitat:

On a huge tree

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14 Comments

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you for the comment aroa1!!

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you very much Bhagya!!

Bhagya Herath
Bhagya Herath 9 years ago

wow!!!! smart guy... awesome capture.....

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you very much James!!!

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you for the nice comment Joseph!!!!

Great Shot Dilan! :))

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Superb images of a majestic bird

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you for the nice comment sew!!

Sew
Sew 9 years ago

a handsome fellow...nice one dilo..

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you DrNamgyalT!

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

Great photo Dilan!

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

A small description was added just now!!

Dilan Chathuranga
Dilan Chathuranga 9 years ago

Thank you for the comment Sakanya!!!!

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 9 years ago

Wow...absolutely WOW!

Dilan Chathuranga
Spotted by
Dilan Chathuranga

Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Spotted on Sep 18, 2014
Submitted on Sep 18, 2014

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