Mareli Chidiya...which is this bird?

Even in Andhra when this bird makes that kind of sound people take it as a bad omen as it indicates death of some body.

It is not eagle, kite or any other bird. You can see the prolonged wings and the sound is exactly the same. I heard it in my child hood.

Wen i was in Kerala few yrs back for my studies, suddenly in the evening there was this horribl screech and then the elders in my house panicked and within a week my maternal aunt's husb (suffering from cancer) passed away...

then after few months it screeched again and this time my fathers sister's husb passed away.. i mean i was amazed at the happenings.. How a bird screeching will cause death.. i asked my grand mom and she said this bird does not normally screech.. it only flies quite around.. she said in normal cicumstances no one will even notice its presence..

But wen it screeches it means death....

Amazing eh!!!!! and scary too ..

But its not an eagle ..