short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus) Short-toed Snake-Eagle in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, India
Date 31 December 2015, 15:54:31
Author T. R. Shankar Raman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shankar_Raman
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Snake-Eagle_DSC9912.jpg
The short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus), also known as short-toed eagle, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Circaetus gallicus is an Old World species found throughout the Mediterranean basin, into Russia and the Middle East, and parts of Asia, mainly in the Indian Subcontinent and also further east in some Indonesian islands.
