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Short-toed Snake Eagle
Circaetus gallicus · Family Accipitridae
Circaetus gallicus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 504,213
- Countries and territories with records
- 122
About this species
This species has 504,213 occurrence records from 122 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (30.1%), Spain (25.7%), Israel (11%), Portugal (6.5%) and India (6.5%); together they account for 79.8% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Circaetus gallicus combines the genus name Circaetus with the species epithet gallicus. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Circaetus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Circaetus cinereus, Circaetus pectoralis and Circaetus cinerascens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 27th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 1.2 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.