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Johan van Rensburg
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I noticed this bird spotting a snake 60 m from its perch. It glided in to make the kill and swallow the 40 cm snake ... and it all happened so quickly that I couldn't get a shot off until after the fact.

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 Post subject: Re: Identification Help - Raptors
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Raptors are very hard! Luckily this photo gives us plenty of info: it is brown, has bright yellow eyes, a dark bill and a funny head shape. It shows indeed some resemblance to a juv. Bateleur, but the eyes of that bird would have been dark and the head flatter. This is a Brown Snake-Eagle!


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JoelR is 100% right.

I just want to add to his ID. Whenever you see a bird of prey with a large head and yellow eyes you know that you are looking at a Snake Eagle.

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Johan van Rensburg
 Post subject: Re: Eagle, Brown Snake
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A flight shot showing the wing pattern of a young brown snake-eagle seen from below, early February near Phalaborwa Gate in KNP. The brown snake-eagles have one of the most easily recognisable under-wing patterns of all birds of prey.

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In an adult bird the light blotched chest and underwing coverts turns a uniform dark brown

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Brown Snake Eagle having dinner on the Doispane road.

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The second one looks like an immature bateleur

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Hoping I identified him correctly? Is he a BSE? Thanks


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