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Birds
Tawny eagle
Tawny eagle · Aquila rapax
Tawny eagles impress with their sandy plumage and powerful flight over open grasslands – discover this bird in the vastness of Africa.
Fact file
- Size
- Body length 60 to 75 cm, wingspan up to 1.85 m, weight around 2 kg
- Males and females
- Females are usually slightly larger than males
- Sounds
- Raucous, croaking call, especially during the breeding season
- Diet
- Eats small mammals, birds, reptiles and carrion
- Offspring
- Usually lays 1 to 2 eggs, incubation period around 45 days
How to identify Tawny eagle
The tawny eagle is a large bird of prey with a robust build and relatively broad wings. Its plumage ranges from sandy to dark brown, often with a golden-yellow sheen on the head. Particularly striking are the contrasting markings on the flight feathers and the strong yellow legs.
Its silhouette shows broad, straight wings and a relatively short, slightly rounded tail. In flight, the wing tips look distinctly fingered. Juvenile birds are paler and more contrastingly marked than adult tawny eagles. Compared with other eagles its bill is slimmer and less strongly hooked.
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Where Tawny eagle live
Botswana
Namibia
- Brandberg
- Buffalo Core Area
- Erongo Gebirge
- Fish River Canyon
- Halali
- Hoanib
- Kalahari
- Kwando Core Area
- Lüderitz
- Mahango Core Area
- Mudumu Nationalpark
- Namib-Naukluft Nationalpark
- NamibRand Nature Reserve
- Namutoni
- Nkasa Rupara National Park
- Okaukuejo
- Otjiwarongo
- Palmwag
- Rundu
- Sossusvlei
- Spitzkoppe
- Twyfelfontein
- Waterberg Plateau
- Windhoek
South Africa
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