Endangered
Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle
Spilornis klossi
Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is a bird in the family Accipitridae (order Accipitriformes) — Spilornis klossi, recorded as Endangered.
The bird
It is probably the smallest known eagle, with a weight of about 450 g (0.99 lb), a wingspan of 85 to 95 cm (33 to 37 in) and a body length of about 38 to 42 cm (15 to 17 in).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to forest on the Indian island of Great Nicobar. It is threatened by habitat loss. Today S. Minimus is either considered a subspecies of the crested serpent eagle or a monotypic species from the central Nicobar Islands, the Central Nicobar serpent eagle.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle, Wikidata item Q948577. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
