Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Hawaks & Eagle

Buteo lagopus
Tundra, moors, grasslands, open coniferous forest, in winter open country and farmlands.
N Eurasia from n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to
Chukotski Pen., and s in e Siberia to Sea of Okhotsk and Kamchatka Pen.; n N. America from w,n Alaska (s to Kodiak I., and Umnak in e Aleutians), n Yukon, Canadian Arctic is. (n to Banks, Prince Patrick, Victoria, Bylot and sw Baffin is.) and n Labrador s to n,se Mackenzie, n Manitoba, n Ontario, n Quebec and Newfoundland. Winters from British Isles, n Europe, c Russia, s Siberia, sc Alaska and s Canada s to s Europe, s Russia, n China, Japan and s U.S.
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Aquila pomarina
Forest, woodland, forest steppe.
Locally e Europe from E. Germany, Gulf of Finland, and w Russia s to Balkans, Greece,Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasus and n Iran; locally India (from Ganges Plain e to Bangladesh, Assam and Manipur, and s to Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, formerly farther s).
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Aquila clanga
Open forest, forest edge, swamps, steppe, savanna.
C Eurasia from Sweden (rarely), Poland and Finland e across nw,c Russia and s Siberia (n to L. Baikal and Transbaicalia) to w Amurland, Ussuriland and (possibly) Sakhalin, and s to Romania, sw,sc Russia, to n Ukraine and s Urals, w Siberia (upper Ob and upper Yenisei R.), nw China (w Sinkiang), Mongolia and Manchuria (Heilungkiang, Kirin and Liaoning, possibly Hopeh); s Asia in Pakistan (Baluchistan, Sind, Punjab) and n India from Ganges Plain e through Nepal, Bihar and W. Bengal to Bangladesh,
Assam and Manipur.
Winters s to s Europe, n Africa, and s Asia e to s China and se Asia.
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Buteo lagopus

Rough-legged Buzzard

rise and fall

rare dark morph

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Aquila pomarina

Lesser Spotted Eagle

not uncommon

has bred: Austria

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Aquila clanga

Greater Spotted Eagle

Scarce

rare pale morph

has bred: Sweden,Finland,

Czechoslovakia,Hungary,

Yugoslavia,Romania,Turkey,

Israel

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Aquila nipalensis
Steppe.
A. n. orientalis. Locally in wc Eurasia from Romania e to sw,sc Russia from Ukraine e to upper Irtysh River and s to the Caucasus, Caspian-Aral seas and Kirghiz steppes. Winters to e,s Africa.
A. n. nipalensis. C Asia in the Altai Mts. of ce Russia and w Mongolia, Mongolia, w China in Sinkiang and sw Siberia in sw Transbaicalia.
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Aquila rapax
Desert, savanna, bushveld.
A. r. rapax. Locally in African region in Morocco, n Algeria, and locally from sw Mauritania, Senegambia e through s Mali, Burkina Faso, c,s Niger, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and c,s Sudan to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and s Arabia, and s (exc. forested w,c) in Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe to c S. Africa.
A. r. vindhiana. Locally in s Asia in se Iran, Pakistan and India (exc. Assam); Sri Lanka.
Sometimes treated as a separate species.
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Aquila heliaca
Open forest, edge, plains, grasslands, towns, steppes, marshes.
Locally in sc Eurasia from e Czechoslovakia, Hungary, n Greece and Turkey (incl. Cyprus) e across c,s Russia, (absent from Transcaspia and Tazdhikistan) and n Iran to sw Siberia to L. Baikal and c Transbaicalia
and w China (w Sinkiang). Winters s to ne Africa, Persian Gulf, India, n Indochina and se China.
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