Booted Eagle

• GeneralIt comes in two morphs, pale and dark, within the same population.
• Its diagnostic feature is the landing lights: two clean white patches on the shoulders, visible as it flies towards you, that no other European raptor has.
• Two radically different colour morphs, pale and dark, live side by side in the same population, unrelated to sex or age, and a mixed pair can raise chicks of both types.
• It migrates to sub-Saharan Africa, though a growing share of the Spanish population now winters in the peninsula, a change linked to the warming climate.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Mediterranean woodland, dehesa, pine woods and riverside forest with open country around

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

36 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieraaetus_pennatus