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BirdPix:   69414
Province:   Mpumalanga
Country:   South Africa
Locus:   2531BB
Observer:   du Toit Corrie
Date of record:   2018-11-17
Number of photos:   3
Notes:  
Last updated:   2020-12-03 11:24:41
Sp. code:   141
Species name:   Aquila spilogaster
Common name:   African Hawk Eagle -- Grootjagarend
Family:   Accipitridae
Record status:   ACCEPTED
Collector's species id:   Ayre's hawk-eagle
Institution:   ADU-UCT
Record URL:   https://vmus.adu.org.za/?vm=BirdPix-69414
Links:   • Locus: Summary | Records       • Species: Records | Distribution map
VM-number: 69414 - photo: 1
VM-number: 69414 - photo: 2
VM-number: 69414 - photo: 3

Comments by the Expert Panel on this record:

Comment number:   1
By:   Malcolm Robinson
Comment:   i believe this bird to be an African Hawk-Eagle, rather than an Ayres's for the following reasons. A rather slender bird, with underparts being streaked rather than heavily blotched and the black "cap" being above the eye-line rather than well below.
Date:   2019-01-14 14:50:02
Species name:   Aquila spilogaster -- African Hawk Eagle; Grootjagarend
Species code:   141

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