Welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy this post and please come back as I post daily! Continuing the bird series today, here where have the Secretarybird from South-Africa, this was taken in Kruger National park.
The secretary bird is a raptor and often eats snakes, lizards, eggs and small mammals. He is different from other raptors as he hunts walking on his feet instead of diving. from air. He will stomp on the prey to disable it then eat it.
Farmers of the Cape of good hope domesticated the bird to control pests. There it got it's name as the secretary.
A male was measured stomping a rubber snake and was found to stomp 5 times its own body weight. Quite impressive.
What is your favorite raptor bird? I think the secretary is my favorite!
@curie a few weeks ago.