Booted Eagle

Aquila pennata (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (0, 0)

Photo © Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

STATUS

South-west Europe and north-west Africa to central Asia and northern India; also South Africa. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

A number of previous records have been added to Category D of this migratory species that breeds as close as southern Spain.

This potential first for Britain was confirmed from a photograph while a mass migration of Red Kites (500+) was taking place over Cornwall.

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BBRC RECORD

P). 2024 Cornwall Cape Cornwall, St Just then Morvah Quoit, dark morph, 20th May, photo.

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P). 2024 Cornwall Carn Bosavern, St Just, juvenile, pale-morph, 10th October; same, Grumbia, 20th October.

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P). 2024 Oxfordshire Warburg NR, dark-morph, 31st October; same, Henley-on-Thames, 2nd November; also seen Berkshire.

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P). 2024 Berkshire Remenham Hill, dark-morph, 1st to 2nd November; same as Oxfordshire.

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P). 2025 Cornwall Marazion Marsh/Crowlas area, juvenile, pale-morph, 12th January to 11th February, photo.

(birding information services).