Secretary Bird

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Tall, crane-legged raptor of the African savanna, the secretary bird stalks snakes and rodents on foot, then fells them with crushing kicks. Its quill-pen crest and striding gait make it a grassland icon, but farmland spread is shrinking its range.

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