A dark-brown eagle with yellow eyes and bare whitish legs. It often watches for snakes from a perch and ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.
Adults are dark brown, with yellow eyes and bare whitish legs. In flight, their silvery-white flight feathers contrast with the dark wings.
In the southern African account, it spots and catches snakes on the ground or in trees from a perch. It occasionally hovers briefly.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.