South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests

Indian Spotted Eagle seen at Hosakote Lake

October 16, 2026

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was recorded at Hosakote Lake on 2026-10-14 with a high count of 4 across 78 separate reports.¹ The species is listed as Near Threatened and occurs in agricultural landscapes and tropical dry forests of the plateau, where deforestation and habitat loss remain primary threats to its survival.²

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Two Indian Spotted Eagles hold on at Hoskote Kere

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Two have been working Hoskote Kere, the old irrigation tank on the plateau east of Bengaluru, turning up on birders' lists over and over through the second half of August and confirmed there on the last day of the month. Clanga hastata is a medium-sized brown eagle of the Aquila group and one of the more easily missed raptors in southern India. Some of that is taxonomy: it is closely related to the Greater Spotted Eagle and still gets written off as one in the field. Some of it is simply that a large brown eagle on a bare limb over a tank looks, at a glance, like any other large brown eagle. South Asian surveys describe it as globally Vulnerable. What it needs is an edge rather than a forest. Those same surveys describe it as an uncommon resident tied to wetland margins, hunting open ground for small mammals, birds and carrion, and Hoskote Kere has that structure: open water, a grazed and scrubby shoreline, and dry deciduous trees standing tall enough to sit in and watch from. The prey layer is there to match.