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Changeable Hawk Eagle
Nisaetus cirrhatus · Family Accipitridae
Nisaetus cirrhatus
Family Accipitridae
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 86,173
- Countries and territories with records
- 19
About this species
This species has 86,173 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (57.4%), Singapore (14.2%), Sri Lanka (11.5%), Malaysia (10.1%) and Indonesia (2%); together they account for 95.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.08% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Nisaetus cirrhatus combines the genus name Nisaetus with the species epithet cirrhatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Nisaetus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Nisaetus nipalensis, Nisaetus nanus and Nisaetus alboniger.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 195 species of the family Accipitridae. This species ranks 64th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Buteo jamaicensis. Its record count is 21% of the family average (411,236). The family Accipitridae belongs to the order Accipitriformes, which has 213 species in the Warbla app catalog.