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Circaetus cinerascens (Western
banded snake-eagle)
Enkelbandslangarend [Afrikaans]; Kleine grijze slangenarend
[Dutch]; Circaète cendré [French]; Band-Schlangenadler [German];
Águia-cobreira-de-cauda-branca [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Falconiformes
> Family: Accipitridae
> Genus: Circaetus
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Western banded snake-eagle, Poli, Cameroon. [photo
Nigel Voaden
©] |
Immature Black-chested snake-eagle, Gambia. [photo
Bill Clark ©] |
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Distribution of Western-banded snake-eagle in southern Africa,
based on statistical smoothing of the records from first SA Bird Atlas
Project (©
Animal Demography unit, University of
Cape Town; smoothing by Birgit Erni and Francesca Little). Colours range
from dark blue (most common) through to yellow (least common). |
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