Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) [XC836900]
by id from Seronera, Serengeti, Mara Region, Tanzania (call)
Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) [XC459459]
by isaac kilusu from Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa (begging 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.