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Revision as of 17:30, 11 August 2009
- Aquila nipalensis
Identification
62-74 cm. Brown upperparts and blackish flight feathers and tail, pale throat.
Distribution
Breeds from the northern slopes of the Caucasus to the north of the Caspian Sea in southern Russia and Kazakhstan and east into Central Asia as far as north-west China and Tibet. Probably now extinct in the Ukraine and a former breeder in Moldova, Romania and Turkey. Further south breeds in Pakistan, India and Burma.
In the northern winter found mainly in Eastern and Southern Africa, small numbers in Iraq and Israel, occasionally Greece and Turkey. On passage occurs in Turkey and the Middle East, Sinai and Egypt but generally rather scarce. Eastern birds winter south to Pakistan, India and southern China.
Annual or almost so in Sweden and Finland, vagrants also recorded west to the Netherlands and France, various European countries and south to Sardinia, Tunisia and Chad.
Taxonomy
Subspecies: Three races are recognised: orientalis from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, nipalensis in east-central Asia and vindhiana in Pakistan, India and Burma.
Habitat
Lowland steppe, semi-desert and foothills
Behaviour
The diet includes fresh carrion of all kinds, also rodents and other small mammals up to the size of a rabbit, and birds up to the size of partridges. It will also steal food from other raptors.
