Booted Eagle
Aquila pennata (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (0, 0)
Photo © Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
STATUS
South-west Europe and north-west Africa to central Asia and northern India; also South Africa. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
A number of previous records have been added to Category D of this migratory species that breeds as close as southern Spain.
This potential first for Britain was confirmed from a photograph while a mass migration of Red Kites (500+) was taking place over Cornwall.
BBRC RECORDS
P). 2024 Cornwall Cape Cornwall, St Just then Morvah Quoit, dark morph, 20th May, photo.
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P). 2024 Cornwall Carn Bosavern, St Just, juvenile, pale-morph, 10th October; same, Grumbia, 20th October.
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P). 2024 Oxfordshire Warburg NR, dark-morph, 31st October; same, Henley-on-Thames, 2nd November; also seen Berkshire.
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P). 2024 Berkshire Remenham Hill, dark-morph, 1st to 2nd November; same as Oxfordshire.
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P). 2025 Cornwall Marazion Marsh/Crowlas area, juvenile, pale-morph, 12th January to 17th February, again, 1st to 12th March, photo; same, Whitecross area, 26th February; same, Connor Downs, 5th March; same, Heamoor, 7th March; same, St Buryan, 25th March; same, Bartinney Downs, 26th March; same, Sancreed and St Buryan, 27th to 30th March.
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P). 2025 Kent Broadstairs, pale-morph, 10th April, photo.
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P). 2025 Norfolk Beeston Bump, juvenile, pale-morph, 14th April.
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P). 2025 Devon Lundy, dark-morph, 29th to 30th April, photo.
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P). 2025 Lincolnshire Manby, 30th April.
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P). 2025 Suffolk Carlton Marshes, 12th May; presumed same, RAF Lakenheath, juvenile, pale-morph, 21st May.
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