Wildlife & Flora
Crested Serpent Eagle
Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Birethanti, Chhomrong, Hile.
- Scientific name
- Spilornis cheela
- Local name
- Kakakul
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
As the name suggests these guys are specialists in hunting down reptiles. It generally does so by waiting in a perch near a clearing rather than soaring. They are generally found close to water and while their diet does include snakes, they also hunt lizards, frogs and also small mammals and birds. In flight they can be told by the pattern on their broad round wings.
