What Animal Lives Where

Where has the White-tailed Eagle been recorded?

Haliaeetus albicilla occurrence evidence comes from 938,453 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1805 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

White-tailed Eagle
White-tailed Eagle — Photo (display-sized rendition): Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesAccipitriformesAccipitridaeHaliaeetus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

938,453 records across 36 countries and territories, 1805–2026.

Haliaeetus albicilla · GBIF taxon key 2480449

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: March.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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.

Records over time

18052026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where White-tailed Eagle has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for White-tailed Eagle. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 933,919
Belgium 2,492
Austria 812
Germany 346
Russia 218
United Kingdom 124
South Korea 110
Georgia 69
Norway 51
Denmark 42
Finland 37
Mongolia 33
Estonia 31
Japan 23
Czechia 20
Netherlands 18
Romania 18
Poland 17
Spain 15
Ukraine 10
Hungary 7
Israel 6
Iran 6
Türkiye 5
Ireland 4
Croatia 3
Åland Islands 2
France 2
Greenland 2
Kazakhstan 2
Latvia 2
United States 2
Belarus 1
Greece 1
Iceland 1
Lithuania 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.