One of the most common eagles in Uganda is this small eagle, which received its Latin and English name after the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg (1810-1856). He was educated in biology at Uppsala University and died in the field, in Ngami, Botswana, only 45 years old, after collecting hundreds of mammals and thousands of birds, probably including a specimen of this eagle. On our trip to Uganda, I was asked by my English-speaking companions how to pronounce 'Wahlberg' "properly", i.e. in Swedish. When they heard the pronunciation, they gave up immediately. "That name has sounds that we can't even pronounce!" (It was probably the long and open 'a' that they were bouncing on).