Photo: Ch'ien Lee / Minden Pictures / Alamy / Yale University Press
WALLACE'S HAWK-EAGLE
(Nisaetus nanus)
Photo: Kenth Esbensen
Until today, I did not know there was a bird of prey with the same name as my surname: Wallace. The raptor is the Wallace's Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus nanus). To my surprise, it is one of the smallest eagles in the world. It weighs no more than a large pigeon. It is found in Southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. Sadly, it's conservation status is 'vulnerable', like several others of the world's eagle species. The photo at top is from a newly published book 'The Empire of the Eagle: An Illustrated Natural History', by Mike Unwin and David Tipling. Their book, newly published by Yale University Press, celebrates the world's 68 eagle species in all their grandeur. Its release follows the release in February of last year of The Enigma of the Owl.
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