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Haliastur indus · Family Accipitridae
Haliastur indus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 725,819
- Countries and territories with records
- 36
About this species
This species has 725,819 occurrence records from 36 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (63.1%), Australia (15.9%), Sri Lanka (4.8%), Thailand (4.4%) and Singapore (3%); together they account for 91.3% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.74% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Haliastur indus combines the genus name Haliastur with the species epithet indus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Haliastur: Haliastur sphenurus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 20th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 1.8 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.