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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 eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.

The booted eagle was 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 and coined the binomial name Falco pennatus. 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). The booted eagle is now placed in the genus Hieraaetus that was introduced in 1844 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hierax meaning "hawk" with aetos meaning "eagle". The specific epithet pennatus is Latin and means "feathered". The booted eagle has no recognised subspecies. or all and most reference lists currently use H. pennata. Although some authors name a number of subspecies most now treat it as a monotypic species. 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.

It is believed that there may be three separate groups of booted eagles in Southern Africa. This bird is most common in the low stature shrublands of the Fynbos and Karoo, and more specifically the ecotone between the two biomes. Similarly to populations further North and South, it was most likely for clutches to consist of two eggs (67.6%).