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Circaetus pectoralis |
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Circaetus pectoralis |
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Circaete Jean-le-Blanc |
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Black-chested Snake-eagle |
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| Kambakamba (Kiluba-PNU) ; mukanku (Tshiluba) ; kambakamba (Kiluba) | |
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This beautiful bird has a black head and white underwings with inner primaries and secondaries barred with black. Eyes are large and yellow. |
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Feeds on snakes that it hunts on bare ground. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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