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| Aquila clanga | Pallas, 1811 |
| Synonym: | |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| English: | Greater spotted eagle |
| French: | Aigle criard |
| Spanish: | Águila moteada |
| German: | Schelladler (There's a German version of this page!) |
| Norwegian: | Storskrikørn (There's a Norwegian version of this page!) |
| Migration: | intercontinental |
| “Migratory; leaves breeding areas later than A. pomarina in Oct/Nov, and does not move so far south, wintering in S Europe, Middle East, NE Africa and S Asia. During migration, much less frequent at concentration points than A. pomarina. Arrives on breeding grounds in spring earlier than A. pomarina. Recently found wintering S to Sumatra.” From: del Hoyo J, Elliot A, Sargatal J (eds.) (1994), Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl, p. 193, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona |
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| Regions: | East Asia, Europe, North Africa, North Asia, South & Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West & Central Asia |
“The greater spotted eagle's distribution extends in a very fragmented manner from eastern Europe through central Asia to China. The species is strongly migratory (Government of the Republic of Hungary 1996). Due to population decline in many parts of its range, the total world population is probably less than 10,000 mature birds (Bird Life International 2000). The species is listed as "Vulnerable" (VU) since 1996 (Baillie & Groombridge 1996, Hilton-Taylor 2000). Major threats for the greater spotted eagle are disturbance, hunting, habitat destruction and alteration. Consequently, the species is included in CITES Appendix II and CMS Appendices I & II. An international lesser and greater spotted eagle working group has been established (Bird Life International 2000) and a European action plan is under development by Bird Life International, supported by the EU Life Funds (Bird Life International 2000).”
From: Riede, K. (2001): Global Register of Migratory Species. Weltregister wandernder Tierarten. Münster (Landwirtschaftsverlag), p. 249
Further detailed information from the GROMS-database
Recommended link(s):
| ARKive | Greater spotted eagle (Aquila clanga): description, pictures, movies... |
| The European Commission | European Species Action Plan – Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga) |
| The European Commission | Discription/distribution map of the Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga) |
| www.iucnredlist.org | The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species – Species Information: Aquila clanga |
| BirdLife international | Greater Spotted Eagle – BirdLife Species Factsheet |
| BirdLife international | Red Data Book – Threatened Birds of Asia (http://www.rdb.or.id/) |
| www.birdguides.com | (1) |
| www.birdguides.com | (2) |
| Tanzania Bird Atlas | – distribution and seasonality: Greater Spotted Eagle Aquila clanga (map – pdf-document) |
| www.raptor-research.de | "On the Biology of the Greater Spotted Eagle" (pdf-document) by Kai Graszynski, Bernhard Komischke & Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg |
| www.ekoi.lt | "The Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga): Previous, Current Status and Hybridisation in Lithuania" (pdf-document) by Rimgaudas Treinys |
| www.birdcheck.co.uk | |
| Animal Diversity Web | University of Michigan - Museum of Zoology |
| RSPB | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: "Spotted eagles in Belarus" |
| Animal Diversity Web | University of Michigan - Museum of Zoology |
| Wikipedia | |
| Oiseaux.net | (in French) |
Related link(s):
| www.raptor-research.de | List of ornithological papers which are based on research using Satellite Telemetry |
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