Lophaetus occipitalis   Long-crested Eagle  Langkuifarend
Long-crested Eagle
Sand River, Jul 2020

An erratic visitor, occasionally breeding. Rare and localised (recorded in 3% of the Waterberg pentads); single birds or pairs may remain in the same area for weeks or months, then disappear; one such pair nested in eucalypts near Loubad in the 1980s.
Long-crested Eagle
Welgevonden Game Reserve, Dec 2016


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