Short-toed Snake Eagle
Circaetus gallicus
短趾雕
IUCN: Least Concern
China: Level II
Found in China
Taxonomy
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Genus
- Circaetus
- eBird Code
- shteag1
Subspecies (2)
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Circaetus gallicus gallicus
breeds northwestern Africa and southern Europe, north to Estonia, southward to the Levant, and eastward to Kazakhstan, also locally Arabian Peninsula, northern China, and Mongolia; also resident in South Asia (Pakistan, Nepal, and India); western populations winter in the Sahel (Senegal and southwestern Mauritania to Ethiopia and western Kenya), eastern populations winter in South Asia
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Circaetus gallicus sacerdotis
Lesser Sundas (Lombok to Tanimbar); reported also eastern Java and Bali, where perhaps only a nonbreeding visitor