Verreaux's Eagle.

[TStone]

Verreaux's eagle, formerly known as the black eagle and in Afrikaans as the Witkruisarend.

[Luker]

Magestic

[griffin]

Stunning photo, thanks for sharing.


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[MohamedD]

Stunning! Learning a lot about the local wildlife from your photos. Thank you.

[DaavG]

Epic!!

[Toxxyc]

Great pics! What did it catch? It's standing on something furry in that first picture.

[TStone]

Great pics! What did it catch? It's standing on something furry in that first picture.

It was eating a young springbok, I could not find the reason it died, but I doubt whether the eagle killed it.

[DaavG]

It was eating a young springbok, I could not find the reason it died, but I doubt whether the eagle killed it.

Roberts has their diet as including antelope with dassie being the main staple. Apparently there is one record from Namibia of a pair of Verreauxs' Eagles who drove a kudu calf off a cliff face and then consumed it.

[TStone]

I have once found one on a freshly killed springbok lamb, however, this springbok was larger, and I spotted crows on it when driving past earlier the morning, on my return the eagle had claimed the carcass. While they are good hunters, I once watched a pair of black eagles trying to catch a grey rhebuck ewe, they are not above scavenging.