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Lisbeth wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:41 pm 2. Tawny Eagle

leachy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:16 am is there not a possibility that no.2 is a wahlberg's eagle.......
it has a longer gape and brown eyes which the tawny does not have
and the wahlberg's are "back in town" so to say....

Lisbeth wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:19 am Could be The gape is actually very long

Dindingwe wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 3:41 pm I am not sure the gape of a Wahlberg is longer than that of a Tawny. The longer gape is the Steppe Eagle's.
I don't think it is a Wahlberg, which is smaller and with a weaker bill than the Tawny. The bird pictured seems not robust enough to me to be a Wahlberg.

Amoli wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2014 5:45 pm Food chains – continued….

I was travelling to Tshokwane when I saw an animal on the side of the road. I idled a bit nearer and saw it was a tawny on a dead impala.

It did seem as if this was a road kill, and a fresh one at that.

Another car passed and the eagle flew up to the tree and joined the bateleur.
I waited around for half an hour, but there was a constant flow of one-one vehicle and they wouldn’t come down.

My pic of the impala is not clear – I felt a bit uneasy with irresponsible drivers.

On my return, the impala was no longer there. It must’ve been removed by park officials.

This chain of food was broken.

Amoli wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2014 6:01 pm

Just down the road was a tawny being pestered by a fork-tailed drongo. I spent some time admiring this eagle’s patience.