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The Indian spotted eagle (Clanga hastata) is a large bird of prey native to South Asia.Like all typical eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.The typical eagles are often united with the buteos, sea eagles and other more heavy-set Accipitridae, but more recently it appears as if they are less distinct from the more slender accipitrine hawks.
The Indian species has a more distinct pale window in primaries, paler and less distinctly streaked underparts, and paler upperparts (more like a steppe eagle in color) with less distinct, more diffuse pale tips to the larger wing-coverts. Furthermore, the Indian spotted eagle has a notably deeper gape extending behind its eye. [5] [29]
The lesser spotted eagle (Clanga pomarina), the most similarly marked of spotted eagles, is particularly less powerful looking with a shorter neck, much smaller wing areas, shorter fingers and tail and less extensive, baggy leg-feathering. The greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga) is also smaller and slighter but to a reduced extent. When ...
Indian spotted eagle Clanga hastata (Lesson, 1834) Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Nepal. Size: Habitat: Diet: VU 2,500 - 9,999 [9] Lesser spotted eagle Clanga pomarina Brehm, 1831: Central and Eastern Europe and southeastward to Turkey and Armenia, and Africa: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC 40,000 - 60,000 [10] Greater spotted eagle Clanga clanga
Black eagle: Ictinaetus malaiensis: Indian spotted eagle: Clanga hastata (earlier treated as C. pomarina hastata) Greater spotted eagle: Clanga clanga: Booted eagle: Hieraaetus pennatus [30] Tawny eagle: Aquila rapax: Steppe eagle: Aquila nipalensis: Endangered Eastern imperial eagle: Aquila heliaca: Golden eagle: Aquila chrysaetos: Bonelli's ...
Mountain hawk-eagle: Nisaetus nipalensis: Blyth's hawk-eagle: Nisaetus alboniger: Wallace's hawk-eagle: Nisaetus nanus: Rufous-bellied eagle: Lophotriorchis kienerii: Black eagle: Ictinaetus malaiensis: Indian spotted eagle: Clanga hastata: Accidental Greater spotted eagle: Clanga clanga: Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor Booted eagle ...
Clockwise from top left: Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), cinereous harrier (Circus cinereus), greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga), harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja), secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), slate-colored hawk (Buteogallus schistaceus), Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis), white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) (center).
Spotted owlet. Short-eared owl, Asio flammeus (rare, vagrant) [33] Oriental scops owl, Otus sunia; Indian scops owl, Otus bakkamoena; Indian eagle-owl, Bubo bengalensis (found in rocky outcrops such as at the NICE expressway, declining fast from urbanisation) Spot-bellied eagle-owl, Bubo nipalensis (historic records from