Spanish imperial eagle, Adalbert's eagle (Aquila adalberti) Description
English: White Shouldered Eagle from Ornithology of Straits of Gibraltar from Lt. Col. Leonard Howard Loyd Irby, 1895, which is freely licensed (watercolour by Scottish artist Archibald Thorburn, 1860-1935)
Date 26 November 2012, 17:20:32
Source Ornithology f the Straits of Gibraltar http://archive.org/stream/ornithologyofstr00irbyrich#page/n0/mode/2up
Author unknown but in old book by Lt Col L Howard Irby
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Shouldered_Eagle_ornithologyofstr00irbyrich_0204.jpg
The Spanish imperial eagle, Iberian imperial eagle or Adalbert's eagle (Aquila adalberti) is a threatened species of eagle native to the Iberian Peninsula. The binomial commemorates Prince Adalbert of Bavaria.
Formerly, the Spanish imperial eagle was considered to be a subspecies of the eastern imperial eagle, but is now widely recognised as a separate species due to differences in morphology, ecology, and molecular characteristics. Order: Accipitriformes, Family: Accipitridae, Genus: Aquila, Species: Aquila adalberti (C. L. Brehm, 1861), Synonyms: Aquila heliaca adalberti.
