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Copyright: Kalvyn Saayman (kalvyn) (31)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-10-11
Categories: Birds
Camera: Cannon EOS 350D, Canon 100-300mm
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/800 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-06-08 12:47
Viewed: 534
Points: 1
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax, is a large bird of prey. It is about 62–72 cm in length and has a wingspan of 165–185cm. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the migratory Steppe Eagle, Aquila nipalensis, and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy (Clark, 1992; Olson, 1994; Sangsteret al., 2002); molecular analysis[citation needed] indicates that these birds are not even each other's closest relatives.

It breeds in most of Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across tropical southwestern Asia to India. It is a resident breeder which lays 1–3 eggs in a stick nest in a tree, crag or on the ground.

Throughout its range it favours open dry habitats, such as desert, semi-desert, steppes, or savannah.

This is a large eagle with tawny upperparts and blackish flight feathers and tail. The lower back is very pale. This species is smaller and paler than the Steppe Eagle, although it does not share that species' pale throat.

Immature birds are less contrasted than adults, but both show a range of variation in plumage colour.
This eagle just sit and looked at me for a couple of seconds and took off.

The Tawny Eagle's diet is largely fresh carrion of all kinds, but it will kill small mammals up to the size of a rabbit, reptiles and birds up to the size of guineafowl. It will also steal food from other raptors.

The call of the Tawny Eagle is a crow-like barking, but it is rather a silent bird except in display.
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Hello Kalvyn.

Thank you for that photo from the Tawny Eagle.

The composition is quite good. In my opinion, it would have be better to cut part of the right side and part of the top side from the photo (in the green area), in order to concentrate you on the subject.

The sharpness is good. For the light it seems me that the face of the eagle is too dark, mainly at the level of the eyes.

Probably you could try to improve it by post treatment of the photo.

Very useful comment from yourself on the photo.

Hope to see you soon on treknature.

All the best.

Philippe.

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