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Researchers estimate that early humans disrupted the golden eagle's nesting areas while the remaining nesting areas were occupied by the Bonelli's eagle; The bird of prey could not have established itself in the Mediterranean before the arrival of the first homo sapiens

Spanish and Portuguese scientists have unraveled the ancestral history of one of the most iconic birds of prey in the current Iberian fauna, the Bonellis eagle (Aquila fasciata). The work, published in the journal People and Nature, integrates evidence from various disciplines, such as paleontology, genetics, and ecology, to answer questions about when and why the Bonellis eagle, a species primarily found in tropical and subtropical regions, colonized the Mediterranean basin.