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Striding Snake-killers

10,000 Birds

Although they share some affinities with typical raptors (building eagle-like nests and possessing hooked bills) Secretarybirds have many characteristics that warrant them to be placed in their own genus, Sagittarius. There is no raptor quite so removed from the typical confines of what a bird of prey should look and behave like.

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