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Where does the Imperial Eagle live?

Aquila heliaca has 60,530 records in 98 countries and territories, from 1829 to 2026. Most records come from India.

Imperial Eagle
Imperial Eagle — Sumeet Moghe / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeAquila

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
India 10,173
Russia 8,022
Israel 6,436
Hungary 4,093
Oman 3,809
Iran 2,768
Türkiye 2,286
Sweden 2,215
Austria 2,057
Kazakhstan 1,424
Slovakia 1,402
Hong Kong 1,398
Bulgaria 1,264
Kuwait 1,103
Georgia 1,011
Azerbaijan 968
United Arab Emirates 944
Czechia 886
Ukraine 828
Netherlands 622
Thailand 583
France 531
Greece 483
Denmark 480
Egypt 415
Germany 316
Italy 277
China 253
Norway 251
Saudi Arabia 212
Poland 207
Taiwan 206
Spain 201
Finland 169
Ethiopia 168
Pakistan 161
Romania 155
South Korea 150
United Kingdom 143
Palestine 132

Showing the top 40 of 98 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.