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Booted Eagle
Hieraaetus pennatus · Family Accipitridae
Hieraaetus pennatus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 530,967
- Countries and territories with records
- 136
About this species
This species has 530,967 occurrence records from 136 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (44.5%), India (11.1%), Portugal (10.9%), Georgia (10.4%) and France (6.7%); together they account for 83.6% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.45% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Hieraaetus pennatus combines the genus name Hieraaetus with the species epithet pennatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Hieraaetus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Hieraaetus morphnoides, Hieraaetus wahlbergi and Hieraaetus ayresii.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 24th 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.