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- Spizaetus nanus
Identification
46 cm. Rufescent sides of head with blackish streaks, dark crest broadly tipped white, three dark bands on tail. Buffish-white base-colour to underside flight feathers and warm buffish coverts with narrow dark barring.
Distribution
Myanmar to the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra. The subspecies stresemanni is only found on the Nias island of Sumatra.
Taxonomy
Two subspecies are recognized, nanus and stresemanni.
New studies place this species in the genus Nisaetus.
Habitat
Evergreen forests.
