Gaukler is typical birds of Africa from the Senegal and Sudan with exception of the forest-areas of southwest-Africa and the western cape-region southwards. Also in the southwest of the Arabic countries, this gripping-bird is to properly often be found.
Shape Gaukler have a characteristic, almost crescent flight-picture through its extremely short push (tail) and the 48-55 cm long, wide wings. The powerful catches - as colored the beak-root powerfully tomato-red - stick out one little behind over the tail out.
Only with approximately 6 years, Gaukler train the strikingly black-maroon plumage of the adult with the neck-bonnet. Females have white sub-wings here and there, they differ fully black males from the unterseits in it for itself. Beside the frequent dark color-variation, another cream form occurs with Gauklern.
Flight Gaukler are very agile and fast planes, they have a multiplicity of "stunts" like roles and somersaults at their disposal, drop itself also in rapid nosedive or slap them together far audibly swinging. Also some other gripping-bird-types show perform courtship display some daring flight-practices with it, the performances of the Gaukler, however, they seem modest.
Food Since these birds beside all possible smaller animals (up to small antelopes) and carrion carry off snakes preferably, one calls also snake-eagle Gaukler. they stand together with the actual snake-eagles (type Circaëtus) in a subfamily.
Reproduction Gaukler build a flattened out nest in high, individually standing trees of the steppes and savannas from powerful branches which they pad with leaves and begrünen. The female erbrütet one single, big and white egg (approximately 7,7 × 6,2 cm), from which the weißbedunte squab hatches after 40 days. its youth-dress is mainly brown.
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