Secretary Bird {Sagittarius serpentarius}
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The Secretary Bird or Secretarybird, Sagittarius serpentarius, is an extraordinary large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey.
Secretary Bird
Sagittarius serpentarius
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Secretary Bird
Bird. A relative of the hawk, the secretary bird is the only bird of prey who does more walking than flying, up to 20 miles a day.
Secretary Bird
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a long-legged African bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, related to the hawk and about 4 ft (122 cm) tall.
Secretary Bird
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The Secretary bird is a bird of prey, but unlike other raptors it has long legs, wings and a tail.
Secretary bird
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Appendix II
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Conservation status
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Here's a secretary bird in full regalia prowling the lakeshore for snakes. Secretary birds were my favorite birds from our whole Africa trip.
Genus Sagittarius (secretary bird)
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The Osprey is usually placed in a separate family (Pandionidae), as is the Secretary bird (Sagittariidae), and the New World vultures are also usually now regarded as a separate family or order.
In contrast, the Secretary bird inhabits a restricted range in sub-Saharan Africa. New World vultures live only in North and South America.
The Philadelphia Zoo's west African crowned cranes are found in African Plains together with the secretary birds, storks and gazelles. They can only be seen in the summer as they are off exhibit in the wintertime.
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The other birds of prey under this group are the eagles, the kites, the Old World vultures and the secretary birds. Hawks come in the same order as the falcons, the New World vultures and the ospreys. These birds of prey are also known as raptors.
Hawk Commonly applied to smaller members of the heterogeneous family of diurnal birds of prey which includes the kite, the Eagle , the Old World vulture , and the secretary bird and is related to the falcon, the New World vultures, and the osprey .
They are independent immediately and can catch prey the size of a small rat. Within a year, they reach 2m. Young mambas are eaten by mongooses, and even adult mambas are eaten by the secretary bird and larger species of eagle.
 See also: Eagle, Vulture, Reptile, Buzzard, Pheasant
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