Bateleur

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The bateleur is a bold African eagle with red face, black wings and a rocking flight. It soars over 200 km daily for carrion or prey. Nesting in thorn trees, it needs vast open woodlands. Poisoned baits and habitat loss now threaten this acrobatic raptor.

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