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Indian Spotted Eagle

C. hastata

Description:

The Indian spotted eagle (Clanga hastata) is a large South Asian bird of prey. Like all typical eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. The typical eagles are often united with the buteos, sea eagles and other more heavyset Accipitridae, but more recently it appears as if they are less distinct from the more slender accipitrine hawks.

Habitat:

In India, it is distributed sparingly over the Gangetic plains, in the east up to Manipur, in Madhya Pradesh and southern Orissa, but in the south limited to Kotagiri and Mudumalai, Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu and Tumakuru, Karnataka

Notes:

One can find these guys mostly in the outskirts of the cities.. We a lots of pigeons in Hyderabad so we them very often hunting small pigeons.

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5 Comments

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Great shot Paresh

PareshDalal
PareshDalal 9 years ago

Thanks Guys... Keep sending suggestion .. need to improve..Cheers!!!

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 9 years ago

Isn't this Milvus migrans or Cheel...looks like one. A Kite I thought.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 9 years ago

Handsome bird ! Paresh Dalal could you please complete the spotting with the scientific name and write something about the place - inner suburbs or outskirts ? under 'habitat'. Thanks.

armadeus.4
armadeus.4 9 years ago

Fantastic image Paresh! Thank you for sharing :)

PareshDalal
Spotted by
PareshDalal

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Spotted on Feb 24, 2015
Submitted on Feb 24, 2015

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