Legge's hawk-eagle (Nisaetus kelaarti)

Query: birds of prey

Result: 1101^st of 1653

Subject:	Legge's hawk-eagle (Nisaetus kelaarti)
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Spizaetus kelaarti / Nisaetus nipalensis kelaarti
Date 1878
Source A History of the Birds of Ceylon. Volume 1
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912) (June 8, 1842, Rotterdam - March 29, 1912); Author: W. Vincent Legge (2 September 1841 – 25 March 1918)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASpizaetusKelaarti.jpg

Legge's hawk-eagle (Nisaetus kelaarti) is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It breeds in the Indian subcontinent, from southern India to Sri Lanka. Legge's hawk-eagle was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the mountain hawk-eagle, but it is smaller and has unstreaked buff underwing coverts. A 2008 study based on the geographic isolation and differences in call suggested that this be treated as a full species, Nisaetus kelaarti.

Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Nisaetus
Species: Nisaetus kelaarti Legge, 1878
Synonyms
- Spizaetus kelaarti
- Nisaetus nipalensis kelaarti

birds of prey
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