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Special Natural Monument
Birds
Crested Serpent Eagle
Spilornis cheela perplexus
A medium-sized eagle with a crest of head feathers. In Japan the subspecies lives on Ishigaki and Iriomote, hunting snakes and frogs around rice fields and woodland. It is scarce and a Special Natural Monument.
- Scientific name
- Spilornis cheela perplexus
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Okinawa
- 日本語
- カンムリワシ
- 简体中文
- 蛇雕
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Designated as a species without a fixed area. Markers show related prefectures.
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The Crested Serpent Eagle is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Okinawa.
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