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long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)
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Spizaetos occipitalis
Date circa 1886
Source Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., vol. 1, plate after p. 120. Extracted from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meyers_b1_s0120a.jpg
Author Unknown, scanned by Benmil222
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spizaetos_occipitalis.jpg
The long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) is an African bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It is currently placed in a monotypic genus Lophaetus. The long-crested eagles occur in sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and Gambia eastwards to Ethiopia and south to the Eastern Cape, in South Africa, northern Namibia and northern Botswana.
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Scientific Name: Lophaetus occipitalis (Daudin, 1800)
Common Names: Long-crested Eagle
French: Aigle huppard, Aigle huppé; German: Schopfadler; Spanish: Águila crestilarga;
Taxonomy: Falco occipitalis Daudin, 1800, Knysna district, Western Cape, South Africa. |
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