#0941 · 🐦 birds

Steppe Eagle

🇳🇱 Steppearend ·Aquila nipalensis

ENendangered 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
2. © Илья Сухов · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Allan Hopkins · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Parham Beyhaghi · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Kudaibergen Amirekul · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © Mousam Ray · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © matthewkwan · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Uday Agashe · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Mousam Ray · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The steppe eagle ( Aquila nipalensis ) is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the non-migratory tawny eagle ( Aquila rapax ) and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy; two molecular studies, each based on a very small number of genes, indicate that the species are distinct but disagree over...

base stats

NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,751iNaturalist observations
weight 3 kgadult, up to
threat ENendangered

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).