Booted eagle | |
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A dark morph wintering in India | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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.