The secretary bird or secretary
bird is a very large, mostly
terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa,
it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Saharan region. Although a member
of the order Accipitriformes,
which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards, vultures, and harriers, it is given its own family, Sagittariidae. Source
