REGAL the African Fish Eagle

the name's Regal... James Regal the Third, Jnr. They call me 'regal eagle' around here and my home is the Okavango Delta - God's own country, and all of it mine.

- JUSTIN FOX

I'm lord of all I survey, etc. If you've ever visited these parts, you've probably heard my triumphant cry: 'Weee-ah, hyo-hyohyo!, yelled at the top of my lungs, head flung back exultantly. What a way to start the day and it pleases the punters no end, especially foreign tourists on their first game drive. People say it 'evokes the spirit of Africa, or some such claptrap. I was even used in a whisky advert once, although I'm a teetotaller, so I wasn't half browned off. But that's the price you pay for being a bush celeb.

I've got family all over sub-Saharan Africa, wherever there's a large patch of open water and plenty of nosh, especially Lake Victoria, where my cousins congregate in huge numbers. It's like the bloody Costa del Sol for eagles up there. Next thing, they'll be coming south looking for work...