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Crested Serpent Eagle - juvenile

Spilornis cheela

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Field Notes

Description:

Crested Serpent Eagle is a common breeding resident of forests and wooded areas throughout the island. It is a common sight in such areas of soaring and circling up birds usually in pairs to great heights on sunny days, frequently uttering its loud ringing call. As its name implies, Crested serpent eagle feeds mainly on snakes. But frogs, lizards, rodents and probably injured or sick bird are also included in its prey. The breeding seasons is from February to May and nest a mass of sticks and twigs place on a tree in jungle where it lays single egg or occasionally two.

Habitat:

Hiyare reservoir sanctuary

Notes:

eating winged alates

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Comments (5)

awesome. Do these eat snakes ?
great spotting Nuwan! I read that the srilankan race of Crested Serpent Eagle is endemic!

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