Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
64 - 72 cm
Wingspan: 185 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1828)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, India (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (NB), Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal (B), Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Bangladesh, Egypt, Gibraltar, Israel, Italy, Lesotho, Liberia, Oman, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Tunisia.

Unknown to Djibouti, Guinea, Myanmar (B), Vietnam.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 100,000 (2010).

Status VU
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) [XC459459]
by isaac kilusu from Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa (begging call)

Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) [XC836900]
by id from Seronera, Serengeti, Mara Region, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis), and sometimes considered conspecific. Subspecies vindhiana has been considered separate species, but limited differences do not support this.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

vindhiana Franklin, 1831 - Pakistan, India, and southern Nepal; possibly also Burma.
belisarius (Levaillant, J, 1850) - Morocco and Algeria; southern Arabia and tropical Africa south to northern Zaire and northern Kenya.
rapax (Temminck, 1828) - Southern Kenya and southern Zaire south to South Africa and west to Angola and Namibia.

References
See References.

Files:

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