long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) English: Long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis), Queen Elizabeth national Park, Uganda
Date 19 October 2016, 14:48:14
Source Own work, from Sharp Photography, http://www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
Author Charlesjsharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long-crested_eagle_(Lophaetus_occipitalis)_Uganda.jpg
The long-crested eagle (Lophaetus occipitalis) is an African bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It is currently placed in a monotypic genus Lophaetus. The long-crested eagles occur in sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and Gambia eastwards to Ethiopia and south to the Eastern Cape, in South Africa, northern Namibia and northern Botswana.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Lophaetus
Species: Lophaetus occipitalis (Daudin, 1800)