Featured Article: Booted Eagle
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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.
