Clicked at Morgaon, Maharashtra
Date 10 January 2016, 09:57:32
Author Rudraksha Chodankar
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steppe_Eagle-1591.jpg

The steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the non-migratory tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy; two molecular studies, each based on a very small number of genes, indicate that the species are distinct but disagree over how closely related they are.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aquila
Species: Aquila nipalensis (Hodgson, 1833)
Synonyms: Aquila rapax nipalensis