{"id":43374,"date":"2013-07-24T19:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:15:56","slug":"secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/vu-vulnerable\/secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This species is classified as Vulnerable because recent evidence from across its range suggests that its population is experiencing a rapid decline, probably owing to habitat degradation, disturbance, hunting and capture for trade. The species inhabits grasslands, ranging from open plains to lightly wooded savanna. A variety of prey is consumed, primarily insects and rodents, but also other mammals, lizards, snakes, eggs, young birds and amphibians.<\/p>\n<p>Reference :\u00a0Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-389-43374\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-9611\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu\/serpentaire2.jpg\" title=\"Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius\" alt=\"Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu\/thumbs\/thumbs_serpentaire2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-9610\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu\/serpentaire.jpg\" title=\"Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius\" alt=\"Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/secretarybird-sagittarius-serpentarius-vu\/thumbs\/thumbs_serpentaire.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Secretarybird Sagittarius Serpentarius<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3305\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box 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The species inhabits grasslands, ranging from open plains to lightly wooded savanna. A variety of prey is consumed, primarily insects and rodents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":68754,"parent":42872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43374","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43374\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}