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Photo © by Jason Bugay Reyes
Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, 23 March 2015

Spilornis kinabaluensis

Identification

Flight
Photo © by Karim Madoya
Tambunan, Sabah, Malaysia, 30 July 2007

Distribution

Mountains of northern Borneo

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

Treated as a race of Crested Serpent Eagle S. cheela by some authors)

Habitat

Forest edge and grassy woodlands.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Clark, W.S., G. M. Kirwan, and D. A. Christie (2020). Mountain Serpent-Eagle (Spilornis kinabaluensis), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.moseag1.01
3. Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/2FDECDDE]. Retrieved 18 August 2021

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