Aigle botté = booted eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) Aigle botté
Date 1838
Author Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon; Nicholas Huet ; Guillaume Michel Jerôme Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse; J. G. Prêtre; C. J.Temminck
Full title Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux : pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 /
BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35245509
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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.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Hieraaetus
Species: Hieraaetus pennatus (Gmelin, 1788)
Synonyms
- Aquila minuta Brehm, 1831
- Aquila pennata Gmelin, 1788
