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title: "Tawny Eagle"
description: "Aquila rapax — Uccelli. The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/tawny-eagle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tawny Eagle

> Aquila rapax — Uccelli. The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey.

- Scientific name: *Aquila rapax*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi), `savanna` (Savana), `desert` (Deserto)
- iNaturalist observations: 6749
- Wikidata: [Q374141](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374141)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5079](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5079)

## Names

- en: Tawny Eagle
- de: Raubadler
- es: Águila rapaz
- fr: Aigle ravisseur
- nl: Savannearend
- pt: Águia-rapace
- pl: Orzeł sawannowy

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (2407), TZ (1185), KE (1072), NA (531), BW (530), IN (255), ET (144), ZW (138), UG (68), ZM (47), DZ (19), TD (12)

## Summary

The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.  Its heavily feathered legs mark it as a member of the subfamily Aquilinae, also known as booted eagles. Tawny eagles have an extensive but discontinuous breeding range that constitutes much of the African continent as well as the Indian subcontinent, with rare residency in the southern Middle East.  Throughout its range, it favours open dry habitats such as semideserts, deserts steppes, or savanna plains. Despite its preference for arid areas, the species seldom occurs in areas where trees are entirely…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawny_eagle

## Photo

![Tawny Eagle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tawny-eagle/medium.jpg)

Photo: relet · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172704982

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tawny-eagle?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).