Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Hawaks & Eagle

Terathopius ecaudatus
Savanna, thornbush, open country.
Sw Mauritania, s Mali, Senegambia, s Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., Gabon, Congo, Zaire, s Chad, c,s Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen and s Arabia, s in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe to n S. Africa in ne Cape Prov., n,e Transvaal and n Natal.
--
-

--- -

Gyps rueppellii
Open plains, arid steppe, desert, breeding on cliffs.
Subsaharan African region from sw Mauritania, Senegambia, s Mali, Burkina Faso, s Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and c,s Sudan to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and n Tanzania.
-
-

Torgos tracheliotus
Thornbush, open plains, desert.
African region from Senegambia, s Mauritania, sw Mali, Burkina Faso, c,s Niger, Ivory Coast, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, C. Afr. Rep., L. Chad area and c,s Chad to Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Arabia (breeding at least in Oman), and s in e,s Africa w to e Zaire and in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Angola to n S. Africa in n Cape Prov., Transvaal and n Natal. Near East
(Israel, nearly extirpated).
-
-

-
------ -

Terathopius eucadatus

Bateleur

Vagrant

Israele, Iraq

* no map

---

Gyps rueppellii

Ruppell's Griffon Vulture

Vagrant

Egypt

* no map

---

Torgos tracheliotus

Lapped-faced Vulture

rare

bred: n.Algeria, Tunisia,

n.Egypt [ n.Chad ]

extinct Israel ?

---

Aegypius monachus
Woodland, open country with scattered trees.
Mts. of s Palearctic from Spain, Balearic Is., s Yugoslavia, Romania and Greece (formerly n Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, and n to Poland) e through Turkey, Iran, Crimea, Caucasus, n to Kazakhstan, sw Siberia (Altai) and Afghanistan to Mongolia, n China (from w Sinkiang e through Tsinghai, Kansu, Ningsia, Inner Mongolia and Hopeh to sw Heilungkiang), Tibet, Pakistan (Baluchistan) and n India (Himalayas in Gilgit, Punjab and Assam, probably elsewhere).
Winters:
s to nw,ne Africa, Arabia, c India, se China, Taiwan and Ryukyu Is.
-
-

Circaetus gallicus
Savanna, thornbush, desert, steppes, open forest.

There is evidence (including mixed pairings in various combinations) that beaudouini and pectoralis are conspecific with C. gallicus, but also opinions that C. pectoralis should be treated as a separate species, as in Sibley and Monroe (1990). Dowsett and Dowsett-Lemaire (1993, p. 326) argued for the inclusion of pectoralis as a race of C. gallicus, while urging "... that more field evidence is highly desirable." The following arrangement follows Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

C. g. gallicus. Locally in Palearctic and s Asia from s Europe (n to c France, Switzerland, E. Germany and Estonia) e across nw,c Russia to Kazakhstan, Turkestan, Kirghiz steppes, Mongolia and n China (w Inner Mongolia, probably sw Kansu and Hopeh), and s to Mediterranean region (incl. Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily), nw Africa (from Morocco to Tunisia),
n Libya, Turkey, Near East, ne Egypt (Nile delta), Oman, Iran, Turkestan, Tadzhikistan, Kazakhstan (except Himalayas s of Kirghiz steppes), Pakistan and India (lowlands to 1000 m, incl. Nepal but absent Assam); Lesser Sunda Is. of Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Roti and Timor.
Winters in Africa mainly north of the Equator.

C. g. beaudouini
BEAUDOUIN'S SNAKE-EAGLE.
Locally in subsaharan Africa in Senegambia, s Mauritania, sw Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Nigeria, Congo, n Zaire, s Chad, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Breeding confirmed in Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Rwanda and Kenya.
C. g. pectoralis
BLACK-CHESTED SNAKE-EAGLE.
Savanna, thornbush, open woodland. Locally in sc,e,s Africa from s Angola, s,e Zaire, se Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and s to s S. Africa. Breeding confirmed in Sudan, Somalia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
-
--
-
-

Circus aeruginosus
Swamps, marsh, rice paddies, reed beds.

C. aeruginosus and C. spilonotus hybridize in western Siberia and are considered conspecific by some authors, and the allopatric C. ranivorus,
C. approximans and C. maillardi are also sometimes treated as conspecific with C. aeruginosus.

W,c Palearctic from s British Isles and s Scandinavia e across nw,c
Russia and sw Siberia (upper Yenisei R.) to w Mongolia and w China
(w Sinkiang), and s to nw Africa (from n Morocco to Tunisia), n Mediterranean region (incl. most is.), Turkey, and Near and Middle East. Winters from s British Isles, w,s Europe and s Asia s to c,se Africa and e through s Asia to se Asia, se China and Greater Sunda Is.
-
-
--