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Haliastur sphenurus · Family Accipitridae

Haliastur sphenurus

Family Accipitridae

Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
GBIF occurrence records
529,580
Countries and territories with records
5
Whistling Kite
Peter Gaylard from Australia · Haliastur sphenurus -Featherdale Wildlife Park, Doonside, Sydney, Australia-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Peter Gaylard from Australia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 529,580 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.4% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.48% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Haliastur sphenurus combines the genus name Haliastur with the species epithet sphenurus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Haliastur: Haliastur indus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 25th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Accipitridae

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