Alap Eagle Spotted Tail

Flaying Animal | Alap Eagle Spotted Tail | Body length 29-31 cm. Fur upper body (back to tail) dark brown mottled brown don. While at the bottom of the white spotting brown. This animal species endemic to Sulawesi, which can be found in P. Talisel (North Sulawesi), P. Muna (Southeast Sulawesi), and P. Buton (Southeast Sulawesi). Residence in mangrove forests, lowland primary forest, hills, mountains den to a height of 900 meters. These animals rarely make a sound. These animals can perch on a tree branch in a long time to monitor the prey. Prey in the form of lizards, snakes, snails, grasshoppers, frogs, birds, bats den.

This bird is small for kestrel, but the body shape and the way like an eagle hunting. Birds that have spread in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java are more sensitive and choise birds away if it detects a human presence. Even so, its role in nature is not less remarkable than the eagle.

These birds serve as a control pest populations in the wild. Target prey are insects and small mammals. This bird likes lowland forests, hills, up to an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level. Meanwhile, the selection of Wildlife Sermo in Kulonprogo Yogyakarta because the region is suspected to be supporters of its survival. The results of the initial observation in 2011, in the region found a pair of crested grass . The area is also still a lot of overgrown trees, grasshoppers, and small birds. Even until the end of 2010, the area became a wildlife habitat for five species of birds of prey, the Javan hawk-eagle, black eagle, honey sikep-Asia, Bido snake eagle, and kestrel cows.