Crested serpent eagle
This bird can be seen in forest areas especially in Noida,bhindawas, sultanpur, sonepat and northeast. This big headed sturdy snake eagle has a short bushy crest and unfeathered long yellow legs. When perched its wing tips fall short of the tail tip exposing a black and white bordered tail. The adult is mainly dark with large yellow bare patch on the lore and base of bill. The black crown is tipped white. It has grey cheeks, dark brown upper parts and buff brown under parts with regular white spotting that turns to barring on the lower belly. The juvenile has a white head with black flecked crown dark ear coverts, white underparts and dark eyes. In flight the serpent eagle has broad rounded wings with distinctive black and white banding on its remiges and a longish tail. Breeding is mainly between february and march , the nest is mainly large structure of twigs and sticks. The egg is creamy or yellowish pale. The food is is mainly snakes, lizards frogs and field rats and domestic fowl.
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