Tawny eagle: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the tawny eagle lives – recorded in 14 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Aquila rapax
Group	Birds of prey
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	14 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia
Mass	118 g (birth weight); 1.84 kg (male organism, adult weight); 2.15 kg (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Accipitriformes
Family	Accipitridae

Where does the tawny eagle live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the tawny eagle in 14 countries and territories across Africa and Asia. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a tawny eagle?

Wikidata records the following for the tawny eagle: mass 118 g (birth weight); 1.84 kg (male organism, adult weight); 2.15 kg (female organism, adult weight).

Is the tawny eagle endangered?

The tawny eagle’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the tawny eagle?

The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a bird in the order Accipitriformes and the family Accipitridae, genus Aquila. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the tawny eagle

The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Its heavily feathered legs mark it as a member of the subfamily Aquilinae, also known as booted eagles. Tawny eagles have an extensive but discontinuous breeding range that constitutes much of the African continent as well as the Indian subcontinent, with rare residency in the southern Middle East. Throughout its range, it favours open dry habitats such as semideserts, deserts steppes, or savanna plains. Despite its preference for arid areas, the species seldom occurs in areas where trees are entirely absent. It is a resident breeder which lays one to three eggs in a stick nest most commonly in the crown of a tree. The tawny eagle is perhaps the most highly opportunistic of all Aquilinae, and often scavenges on carrion or engages in kleptoparasitism towards other carnivorous animals but is also a bold and active predator, often of relatively large and diverse prey. It is estimated that tawny eagles can reach the age of 16 years old. Nonetheless, precipitous declines have been detected throughout the tawny eagle's range. Numerous factors, particularly loss of nesting habitat due to logging and global warming, as well as persecution (largely via poisoning) and other anthropogenic mortality (largely through contact with various manmade objects) are driving the once numerous tawny eagle perhaps to the brink of extinction.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Tawny eagle (revision 1381105255), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q374141 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).