Tawny Eagle

📸 Photo by Balazs Simon: https://www.pexels.com/photo/tawny-eagles-sitting-on-tree-15994084/

Tawny eagles surf warm up-drafts over Africa’s savannas, their keen yellow eyes picking out hares, lizards and carrion. Rust-brown feathers and feathered “boots” give them a rugged look, while they tidy the veld of carcasses. Poisoned baits now shadow this vigilant raptor.

Habitat: The Tawny Eagle can be found in Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina-faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central-african-rep, Chad, Congo, Dem-rep-congo, Cote-d-ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, India, Iran, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi-arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Somaliland, South-africa, S-sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Lesotho, Liberia, Oman, Sierra-leone, Thailand, Tunisia