page_title: List of birds of Africa
section_title: Secretarybird
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Africa / Secretarybird
caption_attribution_description: English: Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius), picture taken at Serengeti Nationalpark, Tanzania Deutsch: Sekretärvogel (Sagittarius serpentarius), fotografiert im Serengeti Nationalpark, Tanzania
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in Africa. The area covered by this list is the Africa region defined by the American Birding Association's listing rules. In addition to the continent itself, the area includes Socotra in the Arabian Sea, Zanzibar, the Canary Islands, and São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobon in the Gulf of Guinea. It does not include Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde, the Sinai Peninsula, Madagascar, Seychelles or the Comoro Islands.
  This list is that of the African Bird Club supplemented by Bird Checklists of the World and The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are those of the Clements list. Taxonomic changes are on-going. As more research is gathered from studies of distribution, behavior, and DNA, the names, sequence, and number of families and species change every year. Furthermore, different approaches to ornithological nomenclature have led to concurrent systems of classification. Differences in common and scientific names between the Clements taxonomy and that of the ABC are frequent but are seldom noted here.
context_section_description: Order: Accipitriformes   Family: Sagittariidae
  The secretarybird is a bird of prey in the order Accipitriformes but is easily distinguished from other raptors by its long crane-like legs.
  Secretarybird, Sagittarius serpentarius (E)
caption: Secretarybird in Serengeti National Park
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