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Photo by Steve G
Near Kwinella, The Gambia, October 2008

Identification

Look for the thin parallel dark lines going from the body onto underwing coverts on the flying adult bird. In addition, wings are a little shorter.

Here is a thread which briefly dicusses the ID and how to distiguish from Short-toed Eagle. [[1]]

Photo by Steve G
Makasutu in The Gambia, November 2005

Africa.
Found from southwestern Mauritania south to Guinea and east to southwestern Sudan and western South Sudan and possibly to northern Uganda.

Monotypic.^[1]
Formerly regarded as a subspecies of Short-toed Eagle.

Open savannah woodland

Frequently hovers like its congener Short-toed Snake Eagle C. gallicus.

Hunts for snakes & lizards

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
BF Member observations

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Beaudouin's Snake Eagle. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Beaudouin%27s_Snake_Eagle

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-Found from [[Senegal]] and [[Mauritania]] to [[Sudan]], [[Uganda]] and [[Kenya]].
+Found from southwestern [[Mauritania]] south to [[Guinea]] and east to southwestern [[Sudan]] and western [[South Sudan]] and possibly to northern [[Uganda]].
 ==Taxonomy==
 Monotypic.<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup><br />
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