Back Dwergarend Afrikaans Hieraaetus pennatus AN عقاب مسيرة صغرى Arabic عقاب مسيره صغرى ARZ Hieraaetus pennatus AST Cırtdan qartalça Azerbaijani Арол-карлік Byelorussian Малък орел Bulgarian Erer korr Breton Àguila calçada comuna Catalan
| Booted eagle | |
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| A dark morph wintering in India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Hieraaetus |
| Species: | H. pennatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Hieraaetus pennatus (Gmelin, 1788)
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| Range of H. pennatus Breeding Resident Passage Non-breeding
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The booted eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus, also classified as Aquila pennata) is a medium-sized mostly migratory bird of prey with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and southern Asia, wintering in the tropics of Africa and Asia, with a small, disjunct breeding population in south-western Africa. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Hieraaetus pennatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22696092A93543946. Retrieved 6 November 2021.