Tawny eagle (Aquila rapax)

Query: Accipitridae

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Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax, offset reproduction of watercolor
Date 1930
Source Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals from Paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (Chicago: Field Museum of Nautral History)
Author Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aquila_rapaxEYP11A.jpg

The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Its heavily feathered legs mark it as a member of the subfamily Aquilinae, also known as booted eagles. Tawny eagles have an extensive but discontinuous breeding range that constitutes much of the African continent as well as the Indian subcontinent, with rare residency in the southern Middle East.

Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aquila
Species: Aquila rapax (Temminck, 1828)

Accipitridae
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