Panic in Mandera County as eagles attack residents

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What species of eagles are available in East Africa? Could these birds have migrated from other countries? This is a very scary story.
 

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Elder Lister
What species of eagles are available in East Africa? Could these birds have migrated from other countries? This is a very scary story.
1.Snake eagles,
2.Bateleur Eagle
3.African Fish - Very big infact could be the biggest Eagle in Kenya.
4.Steppe Eagle - A visitor from Asia and Russia.
5.Tawny Eagle - Scavenger and hunts small gazelles.
6.Imperial Eagle
7.Wahlberg’s, Booted, the Greater and Lesser Spotted Eagle
8.Verreaux’s Eagle - large raptor capable if hunting dik diks and bushbucks.
8.Imperial Eagle - A visitor too
9.Cassin's Eagle - Tiny and once thought extinct found in Meru.
10.Martial Eagle - Largest of all eagles but not the strongest. Hunts gazelles, jackals and monitor lizards.
11.Crowned Eagles - one of the three mega eagles
12.Ayres’s Hawk Eagle - A small eagle that drops from the heavens in a tear shape upon it's prey.
13.African Hawk Eagle - Weighs 2 kg but capable of hunting large prey.
14.Long Crested Eagle - It is a farmer's friend as it hunts mostly rodents swallowing them whole.

Those are just some of the Eagles in the Raptor family but there are also other raptors such as Falcons, Hawks, Kites, Vultures and Harriers.
 
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