[Taxacom] Help with identification of an eagle in Somaliland

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Mary,
        If it is non-native, it is likely a vagrant African Crowned Eagle from an adjacent country.  If it is native, it could be a martial eagle since they will attack humans who come to close to their nest.
                    ------------Ken Kinman

https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/living-primates/terror-from-the-sky.html
African Crowned Eagle - Living Primates - Fossil Hunters<https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/living-primates/terror-from-the-sky.html>
There aren't many birds of prey, either in far distant times or right now, that reach a size large enough to attack and kill a hominid. There aren't many, but
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Subject: [Taxacom] Help with identification of an eagle in Somaliland

There are recent reports of an eagle attacking people, particularly children, in the Somali portion of Ethiopia with, so far,  2 deaths and many injuries reported. The pictures are of a bird thought to be the same kind.  They taken south of Burao [=Burco], Somaliland. Local people do not think it is native.  Can anyone help with id - or tell me where I should direct this query. I have posted the pictures to iNaturalist.

Mary
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