Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila fasciata) juvenile flight Spain_w_4064
The Bonelli's Eagle breeds in southern Europe, Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across southern Asia to Indonesia.
These birds of prey prefer wooded, often hilly, country with some open areas to hunt and breed. The African race prefers savannah, forest edges, cultivation, and scrub, provided there are some large trees; this is not a species of very open or densely forested habitats.
An interesting note about this medium-sized eagle's talons:
Its talons and feet are proportionately very large and presumably rather powerful for the eagle's size. In particular the elongated talon on its rear toe (used as a killing apparatus by almost all accipitrids), or hallux claw, is longer than that of the much larger eastern imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca) and proportionately slightly larger even than its powerful sympatric competitor, the twice as massive golden eagle.
Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila fasciata) juvenile flight Spain_w_4064
The Bonelli's Eagle breeds in southern Europe, Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across southern Asia to Indonesia.
These birds of prey prefer wooded, often hilly, country with some open areas to hunt and breed. The African race prefers savannah, forest edges, cultivation, and scrub, provided there are some large trees; this is not a species of very open or densely forested habitats.
An interesting note about this medium-sized eagle's talons:
Its talons and feet are proportionately very large and presumably rather powerful for the eagle's size. In particular the elongated talon on its rear toe (used as a killing apparatus by almost all accipitrids), or hallux claw, is longer than that of the much larger eastern imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca) and proportionately slightly larger even than its powerful sympatric competitor, the twice as massive golden eagle.