Booted eagle

Booted eagle
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
Binomial name
Hieraaetus pennatus
(Gmelin, 1788)
Range of H. pennatus
  Breeding
  Resident
  Passage
  Non-breeding
Synonyms
  • Aquila minuta Brehm, 1831
  • Aquila pennata Gmelin, 1788

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.

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