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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Whooping Crane]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Booted Eagle]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:WHCR_ad.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Photo by {{user|Peacefrog2|Peacefrog2}}]] | + | [[Image:15559booted-eagle-0023b.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Photo by {{user|john-henry|john-henry}}]] |
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| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| - | A very large crane, pure white with black wing tips, red on forehead and cheeks.<br /> | + | Booted Eagles occur in 2 distinct colour morphs, pale and dark. There is also a rare rufous form which is essentially a pale extreme of the dark morph. Pale phase birds predominate, particularly so in the west of the bird's range where the ratio of pale to dark is approaching 4:1. |
| - | Young birds similar, but strongly tinged with rufous-brown. | + | ====Similar species==== |
| | + | About the same size as [[Common Buzzard]], but depending on angle the plumage of the dark bird is more likely to mislead you to think about [[Black Kite]] or younger [[Bonelli's Eagle]]; pale phase birds share color pattern with [[Egyptian Vulture]] but that bird has a very different shape. |
| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| - | Breeds in Northern [[Canada]] at Wood Buffalo National Park on [[Alberta]]-[[Northwest Territories]] border.<br /> | + | [[Europe]], [[Asia]], and [[Africa]]. |
| - | Winters on Gulf Coast of [[Texas]] at [[Aransas National Wildlife Refuge]] and more recently a family group have been wintering at [[Goose Island State Park]] a few miles up the coast from Aransas NWR. A few winter at [[Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge]] in [[New Mexico]].<br /> | + | |
| - | '''Captive bred''' flocks have been established in several areas - see in the Conservation Status section. | + | |
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| - | '''[''[[Whooping Crane|Read More...]]'']''' | + | '''[''[[Booted Eagle|Read More...]]'']''' |
Revision as of 19:56, 1 February 2012
Identification
Booted Eagles occur in 2 distinct colour morphs, pale and dark. There is also a rare rufous form which is essentially a pale extreme of the dark morph. Pale phase birds predominate, particularly so in the west of the bird's range where the ratio of pale to dark is approaching 4:1.
Similar species
About the same size as Common Buzzard, but depending on angle the plumage of the dark bird is more likely to mislead you to think about Black Kite or younger Bonelli's Eagle; pale phase birds share color pattern with Egyptian Vulture but that bird has a very different shape.
Distribution
Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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