• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Cassin's Hawk-Eagle - BirdForum Opus

Page Discussion
View source History


Stub.png This article is incomplete.
This article is missing one or more sections. You can help the BirdForum Opus by expanding it. 		Stub.png


Photo by nkgray
Zogota, near N’Zérékoré, SE Guinea, January 2010
Aquila africana

Spizaetus africanus

Identification

  • White underparts
  • Black patches on side of breast
  • Black axillaries and underwing-coverts
  • Black upperparts
  • Tail banded dark and light brown
  • Pale yellow cere and feet

Distribution

Humid forests of west and central sub-Saharan Africa: found from Togo east to Uganda and northern Tanzania, also recorded in Liberia and the Ivory Coast.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].
It was formerly placed in genus Spizaetus

Habitat

Dense forest, dense canopy.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
  2. Bioone Online Journals

Recommended Citation

External Links

Retrieved from ‘https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Cassin%27s_Hawk-Eagle&oldid=200490’
Back
Top