long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)

Query: Long-crested eagle

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Subject:	long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis)
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Artist
Creator:Jn. Lebrecht Reinold
Creator:Clde. Fessard
Description
Spizaëtus occipitalis
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, I pl. 2
Old Latin name Spizaëtus occipitalis
New Latin name Lophaetus occipitalis
Common name Nederlands: Afrikaanse zwarte kuifarend
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiza%C3%ABtus_occipitalis_-_1796-1808_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18100229.tif

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.

Long-crested eagle
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