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ForestPlatform nestLarge · 824 g
What the Booted Eagle sounds like
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The booted eagle is a small eagle with a length of 40 cm (16 in) and a wingspan of 110–132 cm (43–52 in); males weigh about 510–770 g (18–27 oz) and females about 840–1,025 g (29.6–36.2 oz). There are two relatively distinct plumage forms; pale individuals are mainly light grey with a darker head and flight feathers. The other form has mid-brown plumage with dark grey flight feathers. These discrete colour morphs follow a Mendelian inheritance pattern, where the paler allele is dominant.
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When to see the Booted Eagle
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Booted Eagle
The map shades 95 countries with regular records, and 13 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Czechia, Congo - Kinshasa, Bahrain, Vietnam, Bermuda, Slovenia.
About the Booted Eagle
The booted eagle 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.
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Easily confused with
Wahlberg's EagleHieraaetus wahlbergiWahlberg's eagle is a medium-sized raptor, and the sexes are similar.
Little EagleHieraaetus morphnoidesThe little eagle is a medium-sized bird of prey, measuring 45–55 cm (17–21.5 inches) in length and weighing 815 g (1.8 lb), roughly the size of a peregrine falcon.
Ayres's Hawk-EagleHieraaetus ayresiiThe adult male has blackish upper parts that are mottled with white and usually has a white forehead and supercilium.
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