Distinguishing features

It is a brown hawk with a thin white-tipped black crest that is usually held erect.

It is confusable with the Crested Goshawk and  the Crested Hawk-eagle in flight, but can be distinguished by the longer upright crest, very broad and rounded paddle-shaped wings and mostly plain and pale underparts. It has a white chin and a bold black mesial stripe. (Wikipedia)

Size

Wingspan

Synonyms

Distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

It is resident in the terai of North India and foothills of the Eastern Himalayas from Eastern Nepal and Bengal duars to the Assam valley, western ghats in Southern India, southern Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Sumatra, Singapore and Philippines. (Wikipedia)

Diet

Food includes lizards, grasshoppers and other large insects. (Wikipedia)

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