Burung pemangsa (Birds of Prey)
Secretarybird
Sagittarius serpentarius
- epik
- 32 km/h
- Terancam punah
Stomps venomous snakes to death for fun. 4-foot legs and a punk rock head crest. Don't mess.
- Populasi
- Estimated 6,700–67,000 mature individuals (wide-uncertainty figure), suspected to be undergoing rapid ongoing decline (documented regional declines of ~89% in Kenya, ~82% in Botswana)
- Habitat
- Open grasslands, savanna, and lightly wooded/scrub areas with short grass (favors grass under ~0.5 m); avoids dense forest and true desert; occurs from sea level to ~3,000 m
- Fakta menarik
- The secretarybird is the only largely terrestrial bird of prey, hunting almost entirely on foot and killing prey with rapid, forceful stomping strikes rather than talon grabs from flight.
- Sebaran
- Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Somalia south to the Western Cape of South Africa (absent from the equatorial West/Central African forest belt)
- Makanan
- Carnivorous opportunist: mainly insects (grasshoppers, locusts, beetles, spiders, scorpions) and small vertebrates (rodents, snakes, lizards, birds' eggs and nestlings, occasionally amphibians/crabs); kills by stomping with its feet
- Ukuran
- 1,3 m
- Bentang sayap
- 2 m
- Masa hidup
- 15 tahun
