African Fish Eagle

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With a snowy head, chestnut body and ringing cry, the African fish eagle patrols lakes and rivers from Kenya to South Africa. It wheels, then plunges to seize fish in dagger-sharp talons. A living symbol of freedom, but pollution and over-fishing shadow its skies.

Habitat: The African Fish Eagle can be found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina-faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central-african-rep, Chad, Congo, Dem-rep-congo, Cote-d-ivoire, Eq-guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra-leone, Somalia, Somaliland, South-africa, S-sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt