Like the Indian spotted eagle in my last post, the imperial eagle, also known as the eastern imperial eagle, is a bird I saw in Keoladeo NP near Bharatpur, India, as identified by my guide, Ashok, who has been a naturalist at Keoladeo for ten years. Like the Indian spotted eagle, when I submitted my photo to iNaturalist, it gave eight suggestions and imperial eagle was not one of them. Even reviewing photos on Birds of the World, there are huge differences in looks as they age.
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| Illustration of the imperial eagle from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. |
I'm not going to go into much detail. Hopefully, I'll have an opportunity to see another one sometime and get a closer look.
Maybe Ashok identified it as an imperial eagle because he knew you were counting number of sightings of different species.
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