Editing Booted eagle (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{About|species|the subfamily of birds sometimes called "Booted eagles"|Aquilinae}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |year=2021 |title=''Hieraaetus pennatus'' |page=e.T22696092A206456835 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22696092A206456835.en}}</ref>
| image = Booted eagle (India, 2012).jpg
| image_caption = A dark morph wintering in India
|image2 =Booted Eagle.ogg
| taxon = Hieraaetus pennatus
| authority = ([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1788)
| synonyms = 
*''Aquila minuta'' <small>Brehm, 1831</small>
*''Aquila pennata'' <small>Gmelin, 1788</small>
*''Hieraaetus pennatus minisculus'' <small>Yosef et al., 2000</small>
| range_map = HieraaetusPennatusIUCNver2018 2.png
| range_map_caption = Range of ''H. pennatus''{{leftlegend|#00FF00|Breeding|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#008000|Resident|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#00FFFF|Passage|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#007FFF|Non-breeding|outline=gray}}
}}

The '''booted eagle''' ('''''Hieraaetus pennatus''''', also classified as '''''Aquila pennata''''') is a medium-sized mostly migratory [[bird of prey]] with a wide distribution in the [[Palearctic]] and southern Asia, wintering in the tropics of Africa and Asia, with a small, disjunct breeding population in south-western Africa. Like all [[eagle]]s, it belongs to the family ''[[Accipitridae]]''.