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.
BBRC RECORD
P). 2024 Cornwall Cape Cornwall, St Just then Morvah Quoit, dark morph, 20th May, photo.
(birding information services).
P). 2024 Cornwall Carn Bosavern, St Just, juvenile, pale-morph, 10th October; same, Grumbia, 20th October.
(birding information services).
P). 2024 Oxfordshire Warburg NR, dark-morph, 31st October; same, Henley-on-Thames, 2nd November; also seen Berkshire.
(birding information services).
P). 2024 Berkshire Remenham Hill, dark-morph, 1st to 2nd November; same as Oxfordshire.
(birding information services).
