Editing Booted eagle (section)

==Taxonomy==
The booted eagle was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1788 by the German naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] in his revised and expanded edition of [[Carl Linnaeus]]'s ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He placed it with the eagle, falcons and relatives in the [[genus]] ''[[Falco (bird)|Falco]]'' and coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Falco pennatus''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1788 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 1 | language=Latin | location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=272 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2896872 }}</ref> Gmelin based his description on "''Le Faucon Patu'' " or "''Falco pedibus pennatis'' " that had been described and illustrated in 1760 by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]]. Brisson had examined a specimen in the collection of Madame de Bandeville who was also known as Marie Anne Catherine Bigot de Graveron (1709-1787).<ref>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés | volume=6, Supplement| language=French, Latin | pages=22–25; Plate 1  | location=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36211620 }} The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.</ref><ref>{{ cite journal | last=Thiebaud | first=François | date=2018 | title=Une femme collectionneuse au XVIIIe siècle, Marie-Anne Catherine Bigot de Graveron, Présidente de Bandeville | journal=Bulletin de la Société Historique et Archéologique de l'Essonne et du Hurepoix | volume=88 | issue= | pages=19–37 | url=https://saintcyrsousdourdan.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/marie-anne-bigot-de-graveron-presidente-de-bandeville-rev-1.pdf }}</ref> The booted eagle is now placed in the genus ''[[Hieraaetus]]'' that was introduced in 1844 by the German naturalist [[Johann Jakob Kaup]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Kaup  | first=Johann Jakob  | author-link=Johann Jakob Kaup | year=1844 | title=Classification der Saugethiere und Vogel | language=German | location=Darmstadt  | publisher=Carl Wilhelm Leske | page=120 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35282202 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=August 2022 | title=Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.2  | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/raptors/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=5 December 2022 }}</ref> The genus name combines the [[Ancient Greek]] ''hierax'' meaning "hawk" with ''aetos'' meaning "eagle". The specific epithet ''pennatus'' is [[Latin]] and means "feathered".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n192/mode/1up 192], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n296/mode/1up 296] }}</ref> The booted eagle has no recognised [[subspecies]].<ref name=ioc/>

Based on recent [[Genetics|genetic]] research some authors reclassified this species to the [[genus]] ''Aquila'', along with some<ref name =  BB>{{Cite journal |first=Martin |last=Collinson |title=Splitting headaches? Recent taxonomic changes affecting the British and Western Palaearctic lists |journal=[[British Birds (magazine)|British Birds]] |volume=99 |date=June 2006 |pages=306–323 |url=http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/article/splitting-headaches-recent-taxonomic-changes-affecting-the-british-and-western-palearctic-lists/ |access-date=13 April 2015 |archive-date=29 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229114216/https://britishbirds.co.uk/article/splitting-headaches-recent-taxonomic-changes-affecting-the-british-and-western-palearctic-lists/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> or all<ref name=Clements /> other ''[[Hieraaetus]]'' species. As it is the [[type species]] of ''Hieraaetus'', should any of the hawk-eagles have been retained in a distinct genus then a new name for that group would have been necessary. However, [[DNA]] research has shown it forms a [[monophyletic]] [[clade]] with [[Ayres's hawk eagle]], [[Wahlberg's eagle]], [[little eagle]] and the [[pygmy eagle]] and this clade is often treated as forming the genus ''[[Hieraeetus]]''<ref name = TED>{{cite web | url = http://www.eagledirectory.org/species/booted_eagle.html | title = Booted Eagle - ''Aquila pennata'' | access-date = 2016-11-03 | publisher = The Eagle Directory | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208231630/http://www.eagledirectory.org/species/booted_eagle.html | archive-date = 8 December 2015 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and most reference lists currently use ''H. pennata''.<ref name=BOW-Raptors /><ref name=ITIS-Hieraaetus /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal | last1=Lerner | first1=H. | last2=Christidis | first2=L. | last3=Gamauf | first3=A. | last4=Griffiths | first4=C. | last5=Haring | first5=E. | last6=Huddleston | first6=C.J. | last7=Kabra | first7=S. | last8=Kocum | first8=A. | last9=Krosby | first9=M. | last10=Kvaløy | first10=K. | last11=Mindell | first11=D. | last12=Rasmussen | first12=P. | last13=Røv | first13=N. | last14=Wadleigh | first14=R. | last15=Wink | first15=M. | last16=Gjershaug | first16=J.O. | date=2017 | title=Phylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4216 | issue=4 | pages=301–320 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4216.4.1 | pmid=28183111 | doi-access=free| hdl=11250/2443953 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Although some authors name a number of [[subspecies]] most now treat it as a [[monotypic]] species.<ref name = Avibase>{{cite web | url = http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=4B8CC2853542FFED | title = Booted Eagle ''Hieraaetus pennatus'' (Gmelin, JF, 1788)| access-date = 2016-11-03 | publisher = Denis Lepage|work  = Avibase}}</ref>

''Aquila minut'' described by Brehm (1831) is this bird. The [[fossil]] bird described under the same name by Milne-Edwards (1871) is preliminarily known as ''[[Hieraaetus]] edwardsi'', but might belong in ''[[Aquila (genus)|Aquila]]''.