#1117 · 🐦 birds

Booted Eagle

🇳🇱 Dwergarend ·Hieraaetus pennatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

what is it?

The booted eagle ( Hieraaetus pennatus , also classified as Aquila pennata ) is a medium-sized mostly migratory bird of prey with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and southern Asia, wintering in the tropics of Africa and Asia, with a small, disjunct breeding population in south-western Africa. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,103iNaturalist observations
weight 975 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
18,103 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 975 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).