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Where does the Steppe Eagle live?

Aquila nipalensis has 102,236 records in 108 countries and territories, from 1857 to 2026. Most records come from India.

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

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. 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 29,218
Israel 10,878
Russia 5,921
Nepal 5,734
Sweden 5,640
Kazakhstan 5,244
Georgia 4,792
Kenya 3,718
Mongolia 3,492
Iran 3,135
Oman 2,725
Denmark 2,238
Tanzania 2,123
Kuwait 1,809
South Africa 1,679
Egypt 1,288
Ethiopia 1,278
China 933
Saudi Arabia 923
Pakistan 700
Uganda 550
Türkiye 527
Azerbaijan 504
Palestine 492
Jordan 485
Thailand 479
Netherlands 468
United Arab Emirates 424
Bhutan 330
Uzbekistan 285
France 270
Spain 227
Norway 201
Botswana 199
Finland 186
Zimbabwe 177
Greece 172
Ukraine 157
Germany 154
Italy 153

Showing the top 40 of 108 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.