BIRDS of THE WORLD - An Online Bird Book
RAPTORS
Raptors are carnivorous. They hunt by sight during the day, are long lived, and have low reproductive rates. They catch their prey via strong claws – three pointing forward and one pointing backward. The raptors that hunt by day are: hawks, eagle, kites, vultures, falcons. Owls hunt by night. Raptors are also called
birds of prey.
Order
Accipitriformes, family
Accipitridae:
hawks,
eagles,
kites,
Old World vultures.
Order
Accipitriformes, family
Cathartidae:
New World vultures
Order
Falconiformes, family
Falconidae:
falcons
Order
Strigiformes, family
Strigidae:
owls
Eagles
Order Accipitriformes Family Accipitridae
This page contains birds that have "
eagle" as part of their name. The term eagle is not a precise scientific name; what one person considers to be an eagle another may consider to be a hawk. In fact, the "solitary eagles" are placed by most people in genus
Buteogallus. That genus also contains species termed "hawks". This has lead to the
Buteogallus genus being split over two webpage; this one for eagles and
another for hawks.
Genus Aquila
There is disagreement over what species should be included in the genus
Aquila. If the location of a specific species is questionable, then an alternate genus is listed also. Some include all members of genus
Hieraaetus in
Aquila.
Eagle,_African Hawk- Aquila spilogaster Found: tropical Sub-Saharan Africa
Image by: 1)
Paul Seligman 2)
Ian White - South Africa 2)
Chris Eason - South Africa 4)
Steve Garvie - Kenya



Eagle,_Bonelli's Aquila fasciata Found: southern Europe, Asia, Africa
Image by: 1)
Seshardri KS - India 2)
Andy Li 3)
Imran_Shah - Pakistan



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Eagle,_Booted Aquila pennata also
Hieraaetus pennatus Found: Europe, Asia, Africa
Image by:1)
Lip Kee Yap 2)
Chandima Gunadasa - Sri Lanka 3)
Joby Joseph - India 4)
Muchaxo - Portugal



Eagle,_Cassin's Hawk- Aquila africana Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Joseph Mochoge - Kenya 2)
Marcel Holyoak

Eagle,_Golden Aquila chrysaetos Found: North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Hawaii
Image by: 1)
teddyllovet - California
2)
BlueRidgeKitties - North Carolina
3, 6) Dick Daniels -
Carolina
Raptor Center 4)
Dick -
Jungle Island,Miami 5)
J. Glover of Atlanta,
Georgia 7)
Pat Gaines - Colorado
1) Juvenile






Eagle,_Greater Spotted Aquila clanga also
Clanga clanga Found: Europe, Asia
Image by:
1, 4) JM Garg - India 3)
Sergey Yeliseev 4)
Umang Duff - India



Eagle,_Gurney's Aquila gurneyi Found: Australasia (New Guinea and nearby islands).
Image by: 1)
Joseph Wolf 2)
David Beadie

Eagle,_Imperial also
Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca Found: Europe, Asia, Africa
Image by:
1, 3) Sergey Pisarevskiy - South Siberia, Russia 2)
AngMoKio 4)
Frankie Chu 5)
Kor!An - Moscow Zoo
1) Juvenile?




Eagle,_Indian Spotted Aquila hastata also
Clanga hastata Found: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Image by: 1)
Ravi Vaidyanathan 2)
Aravind Venkatraman - India

Eagle,_Lesser Spotted Aquila pomarina also
Clanga pomarina Found: Europe
Image by: 1)
Steve Groom 2)
Dragus - Birdpark Marlow 3)
Artur Mikotajewski - Poland


Eagle,_Spanish also
Spanish Imperial Eagle also
Adalbert's Eagle Aquila adalberti Found: Europe
Image by: 1)
Antonio Gomez 2)
Dinis Cortez 3)
Pinto Moreira 4)
Martien Brand 5)
Cristiano Crolle - Monfrague, Spain
1) Juvenile




Eagle,_Steppe Aquila nipalensis Found: Europe, Asia, Africa
Image by: 1)
Patricia van Casteren 2)
Andy Li 3)
Sergey Pisarevskiy - South Siberia, Russia
4)
4028mdk09 5)
Lilly M - Kadzidlowo,
Poland 6)
Arno Meintjes




Eagle,_Tawny Aquila rapax Found: Asia, Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Yathin Krishnappa 3, 7)
Arno Meintjes 4, 5) Koshy_Koshy - India 6)
Cristiano Crolle - Vingerklip, Namibia 7)
Francesco Veronesi - Kenya
8) Dick Daniels - Tanzania







Eagle,_Verreaux's also (African)
Black Eagle Aquila verreauxii Found: southern and eastern Africa; near by western Asia
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels -
Radical Raptors, South Africa 4)
Steve Garvie



Eagle,_Wahlberg's Aquila wahlbergi also
Hieraaetus wahlbergi Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Doug Newman - Kruger National Park, South Africa 2)
Ian
White 3)
Darren Bellerby -
Maasai Mara, Kenya
1, 2) Intermediate morph 3) Dark morph


Eagle,_Wedge-tailed Aquila audax Found: Australia
Image by: 1)
JJ Harrison - New South Wales 2)
David Cook - Queensland 3)
Brian_McCauley
4)
Thomas Schoch 5
Oystercatcher - New South Wales



Genus Buteogallus
The Crowned Solitary Eagle and Black Solitary Eagle are closely related and have sometimes been put into their own genus
Harpyhaliaetus. Smaller members of
Buteogallus are commonly called hawks and are
shown elsewhere. The solitary eagles tend to eat reptiles and the smaller "hawks" tend to eat crustaceans.
Eagle,_Crowned Solitary also
Crowned Eagle Buteogallus coronatus Found: South America
Image by: 1)
Mateus Hidalgo 2, 3) Nori Almeida


Eagle,_Black Solitary also
Solitary Eagle Buteogallus solitarius Found: Mexico, Central America, South America
Image by: 1)
Tom Friedel (
BirdPhotos.com) 2)
Sally Taylor - Ecuador

Genus Circaetus
The Snake-eagles, mainly African eagles, eat mainly snakes but also lizzards and small mammals. They are medium sized eagles. Snake-eagles build stick nests and lay just one egg.
Eagle,_Black-chested Snake- Circaetus pectoralis Found: southern Africa
Image by: 1)
Gaurav Pandit - Tanzania 2)
Brian
Ralphs 3)
Arno Meintjes 4)
Carol
Foil - Tanzania 5)
Nik_Borrow




Eagle,_Beaudouin's Snake- Circaetus beaudouini Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 3) Steve Garvie - Gambia 2)
David Cook - Uganda


Eagle,_Brown Snake- Circaetus cinereus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Aviceda - Murchison Falls NP, Uganda 2)
Arno Meintjes 3)
Nik_Borrow - Tanzania


Eagle,_Short-toed Snake- also
Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus Found: Europe, Asia , Africa
Image by: 1)
Orchi 2)
Mario M 3)
JV Verde - Portugal


Eagle,_Southern Banded Snake- also
Fasciated Snake-Eagle Circaetus fasciolatus Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Nydia Sofía Fernandes 3)
Nick Athanas - Kenya


Eagle,_Western Banded Snake- Circaetus cinerascens Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Nik_Borrow - Uganda 2)
Bernard_Dupont - Uganda 3)
Jerry Oldenettel - Namibia 4)
Ron Knight



Genus Clanga
See
Greater Spotted Eagle,
Indian Spotted Eagle,
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Genus Dryotriorchis - 1 species
For other serpent-eagles, see
Spilornis and
Eutriorchis.
Eagle,_Congo Serpent- Dryotriorchis spectabilis Found: Western and Central Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Nik_Borrow - Gabon, Ghana

Genus Eutriorchis - 1 species
For other serpent-eagles, see
Spilornis and
Dryotriorchis.
Eagle,_Madagascar Serpent- Eutriorchis astur Found: Madagascar
Image by:
John Gerrard Keulemans
Genus Haliaeetus
Fish eagles, also know as sea eagles eat mainly fish and small mammals. Most have white tails. Their closet relatives are in genus
Ichthyophaga. They are probably closer to kites of genus
Milvus than the "true eagles" of genus
Aguila.
Eagle,_African Fish- Haliaeetus vocifer Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 4)
AngMoKio 2)
Sias van Schalkwyk - South Africa 3)
Joseph Mochoge - Kenya 4) Dick Daniels - Tanzania
5) Charlie Westerinen - Botswana





Eagle,_Bald Haliaeetus leucocephalus Found: North America
Image by:
1) Dick Daniels - Homer, Alaska
2) Dick - Wyoming 3)
Rick Leche 4)
RoNg - Oregon 5)
Dick -Anchorage Zoo, Alaska
6) Dick - Brookfield Gardens, South Carolina
7) Ted Grussing 8)
Dick -
Carolina Raptor Center 9) Dick - Sunset Beach, NC 10)
Andy_Morffew - Alaska
1) Just fledged 2) 1 year 3) 2 year
4) 3 year 5 - 10) Adult









Eagle,_Madagascar Fish- Haliaeetus vociferoides Found: Madagascar
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels - Antananarivo Zoo, Madagascar 3)
Frank Vassen - Madagascar
4) Dick



Eagle,_Pallas's Sea- also
Pallas's Fish-Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus Found: Asia
Image by:
1, 2) Lip Kee Yap - Kazaringa, Assam, India 3)
Pankaj Kaushal - India


Eagle,_Sanford's_Sea- also
Sanford's Fish-Eagle Haliaeetus sanfordi Found: Solomon Islands
Image by: 1)
Katerina_Tvardikova 2)Tony_Morris

Eagle,_Steller's Sea- Haliaeetus pelagicus Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
Dmitry Valberg 2)
Jorg Hempel 3)
Dick Daniels -
National Aviary 4)
GruenesMonster72 - Japan



Eagle,_White-bellied Sea- Haliaeetus leucogaster Found: Asia, Australia
Image by: 1)
MagicFluet1983 2)
Dick Daniels - Featherdale Wildlife Park, Australia 3)
Shrikant_Rao - India
4)
David Cook - Eden, NSW, Australia
5, 6) birdsaspoetry





Eagle,_White-tailed Haliaeetus albicilla Found: Europe, Asia
Image by: 1)
Jan_Svetlik 2)
Jorg Hempel 3)
Yathin sk - Norway
4)
www.volganet.ru
1) Adult and juvenile



Genus Harpia - 1 species
Eagle,_Harpy Harpia harpyja Found: Mexico, Central America, South America
Image by:
1, 3) Nick Athanas - Brazil 2)
Tom Friedel (
BirdPhotos.com) 4)
Dick Daniels -
Jacksonville Zoo
1) Juvenile



Genus Harpyopsis - 1 species
Eagle,_New Guinea also
Papuan Eagle Harpyopsis novaeguineae Found: Australasia (New Guinea)
Image by:
Markaharper
Genus Hieraaetus
Some include all members of genus
Hieraaetus in
Aquila.
Eagle,_Ayres's Hawk- Hieraaetus ayresii Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Johann du Preez - ZImbabwe 2)
Nigel Noaden 3)
Aviceda - Uganda


Eagle,_Little Hieraaetus morphnoides Found: Australasia
Image by: 1)
birdsaspoetry 2)
Paul Hitch

Eagle,_Pygmy Hieraaetus weiskei Found: New Guinea
Image by:
hbw.com
Genus Ichthyophaga
These fish eagles are closely related to the "sea eagles" of genus
Haliaeetus.
Eagle,_Gray-headed Fish- Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus Found: southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent
Image by: 1)
Steve Garvie - Sri Lanka 2)
Lip Kee - India 3)
Stephen Cooper 4)
Soubhagya S Behera - India



Eagle,_Lesser Fish- Ichthyophaga humilis Found: Indian Subcontinent
Image by: 1)
LonelyShrimp 2)
Subramanya CK

Genus Ictinaetus - 1 species
Eagle,_Black Ictinaetus malayensis Found: tropical Asia
Image by: 1)
Tarique Sani - India 2)
Kalyanvarma

Genus Lophaetus - 1 species
Eagle,_Long-crested Lophaetus occipitalis Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Arno Meintjes 2)
Carol Foil - Kenya 3)
D
Gordon Robertson - Tanzania
4, 5, 6) Dick Daniels - Kenya





Genus Lophotriorchis - 1 species
Eagle,_Rufous-bellied Lophotriorchis kienerii Found: tropical Asia
Image by: 1)
Magalhães
Genus Morphnus - 1 species
Eagle,_Crested Morphnus guianensis Found: Central America, South America
Image by: 1)
Yannick_TURBE 2)
Alex_Lee
2) Pale morph

Genus Nisaetus
The
Hawk-eagles are found mainly in tropical Asia. They are slender bodied, medium sized hawk-eagles with rounded wings, long feathered legs, barred wings, crests and usually adapted to forest habitats.
Eagle,_Pinsker's_Hawk- Nisaetus pinskeri Found: Philippines
Image by: 1)
Rob Hutchinson 2)
Paul_French

Eagle,_Blyth's Hawk- Nisaetus alboniger Found: Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo.
Image by:
1, 2) Hiyashi Haka - Malaysia

Eagle,_Changeable Hawk- also
Crested Hawk-eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
MyLittleFinger- India 2)
James Gordon - Sri Lanka
3)
Werner Witte - Sri Lanka 4)
Kesara Rathnayake - Sri Lanka 5)
Gaurika Wijeratne - Sri Lanka
1, 2) Dark morph 3, 4 ,5) Light morph




Eagle,_Flores_Hawk- Nisaetus floris Found: Lesser Sundas of Indonesia
Image by: 1)
Unknown 2, 3) James Eaton - Flores


Eagle,_Javan Hawk- Nisaetus bartelsi Found: Indonesia
Image by: 1)
Midori - Bandung Zoo 2)
Irawan Subingar 3)
Lip Kee - Indonesia


Eagle,_Legge's_Hawk- Nisaetus kelaarti Found: Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka
Image by: 1)
Yathin_Krishnappa 2)
Hira_Punjabi

Eagle,_Mountain Hawk- Nisaetus nipalensis Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
Ron Knight 2)
Shrikant Rao - Bengal 3)
Lip Kee Yap - Malaysia


Eagle,_Philippine Hawk- Nisaetus philippensis Found: Philippines
Image by:
Chris Angelo Perez
Eagle,_Sulawesi Hawk- Nisaetus lanceolatus Found: Indonesia
Image by:
Lip Kee Yap - Indonesia
1) Juvenile
Eagle,_Wallace's Hawk- Nisaetus nanus Found: southeast Asia
Image by: 1)
Mark Louis Benedict - Malaysia 2)
Jais Pg Othman - Malaysia 3)
Gary Albert - Malaysia


Genus Pithecophaga - 1 species
Eagle,_Philippine Pithecophaga jefferyi Found: The Philippines
Image by: 1) Voltaire Malazarte 2)
Harrybalais - The Philippine Eagle Center
3)
scorpious18


Genus Polemaetus - 1 species
Eagle,_Martial Polemaetus bellicosus Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2, 3) Arno
Meintjes 4, 5) Dick Daniels -
Radical Raptors in
South Africa 6)
Dick -
World
of Birds in
South Africa
7)
Dick - Tanzania
1,2) Juvenile





Genus Spilornis
The Asian Serpent-Eagles have a dark crown; bright yellow eyes and cere (waxy covering at base of bill). Other speices termed serpent-eagles are
Congo Serpent-Eagle and
Madagascar Serpent-Eagle.
Eagle,_Andaman Serpent- Spilornis elgini Found: India
Image by: 1) Balaji Venkatesh Sivaramakrishnan 2)
Anand Pendharkar

Eagle,_Crested Serpent- Spilornis cheela Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
peellden 2)
prashanthns 3)
J
M Garg - India 4)
Andy_Li



Eagle,_Mountain_Serpent- Spilornis kinabaluensis Found: Borneo
Image by: 1)
Karim_Madoya
Eagle,_Nicobar_Serpent- also
Great Nicobar Serpent-Eagle Spilornis klossi Found: Great Nicobar island of India
Image by: 1)
Shreeram_MV 2)
Jainy_Kuriakose

Eagle,_Philippine Serpent- Spilornis holospilus Found: Philippine Islands
Image by: 1)
Charles Laigo 2)
Richard Parker 3)
Mark A Harper 4)
Ilocos Norte



Eagle, Sulawesi Serpent- Spilornis rufipectus Found: Indonesia
Image by: 1)
Joseph Wolf 2)
David Beadle

Genus Spizaetus
New World Hawk-eagles. They are forest birds with several species having a preference for highland woodlands. They build stick nests in trees. The sexes are similarly plumaged with typical raptor brown
upperparts and pale underparts, but young birds are distinguishable from adults, often by a whiter head.
Eagle,_Black Hawk- Spizaetus tyrannus Found: Mexico, Central America, South America
Image by: 1)
Tom Friedel (
BirdPhotos.com) - Argentina 2)
Nick Athanas - Columbia 3)
Dave Wendelken - Panama 4)
Jerry Oldenettel - Venezuela



Eagle,_Black-and-white Hawk- Spizaetus melanoleucus Found: Mexico, Central America, South America
Image by: 1)
Magalie L'Abbé 2, 3) Mateus Hidalgo 4)
Carol Foil - Peru



Eagle,_Black-and-chestnut Spizaetus isidori Found: South America
Image by: 1)
Marc Athanase Parfait 2)
Tom Friedel (
BirdPhotos.com) 3)
Nick Athanas - Ecuador


Eagle,_Ornate Hawk- Spizaetus ornatus Found: Mexico, Central America, South America
Image by: 1)
Mdf - Panama Juan 2)
Nathan Rupert - San Diego Zoo 3)
Mateus Hidalgo
1) Juvenile


Genus Stephanoaetus
Eagle,_Crowned Hawk- also
Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus Found: Africa
Image by: 1,
2) Steve Garvie - Kenya 3)
N Myburg 4) Sandy Cole - San Diego Zoo 5)
Charlie Westerinen - San Diego Zoo 6)
Aviceda





Genus Terathopius - 1 species
Bateleur Terathopius ecaudatus Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 5) Arno Meintjes 2)
Tony Hisgett 3)
Richard Towell
4)
Nathan Rupert 6) Dick - Tanzania
7, 8) Nik_Borrow
1, 2) Female 4, 5, 6) Male







Genus
Pandion
Osprey also Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus Found: all continents except Antarctica
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - Florida
2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Dick - North Carolina 7) Charlie Westerinen - California 8)
Cristiano Crolle - Angera, Italy




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Osprey,_Eastern Pandion cristatus Found: Australasia
Image by: 1)
Psylexic - Western Australia 2)
Nik_Borrow - New Guinea

This family has only one specied of bird.
Secretary Bird Sagittarius serpentarius Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Carol Foil -Rift Valley, Kenya 2)
Brian
Ralphs 3)
DIck Daniels - Tanzania
4) Dick - Nairobi National Park, Kenya


