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| Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus
- Adult |
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| Photographer : | © Sharad Sridhar |
| Location : | Tal Chappar WLS, Churu District, Rajasthan, India |
| Date : |
May 2010 |
| English synonyms: | Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Short-toed Harrier Eagle, European Snake Buzzard, European Snake-Eagle, Serpent Eagle, Snake Buzzard, Turkestan Snake Buzzard, Lesser Sundas Short-toed Snake-eagle (sacerdotis) |
| Bird Family : | Accipitrinae - Hawks, Bazas, Honey-buzzards, Eagles, Kites, Vultures, Harriers & Buzzards |
| Bird Group : | CICONIIFORMES |
| Red Data Status : | Least Concern |
| Remarks : | One of my few shots on the ground of this common but ridiculously shy eagle. I have been asked this before and just to clarify "no bait was used to draw this eagle to us". We just sat at the waterhole on a really hot day and got lucky :):) - SS |
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