Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Accipitriformes > Accipitridae > Aquila > Aquila adalbertiAquila adalberti (Spanish Imperial Eagle)Synonyms: Aquila heliaca adalberti The Spanish imperial eagle, Iberian imperial eagle or Adalbert's eagle (Aquila adalberti) is a threatened species of eagle native to the Iberian Peninsula. The binomial commemorates Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. Formerly, the Spanish imperial eagle was considered to be a subspecies of the eastern imperial eagle, but is now widely recognised as a separate species due to differences in morphology, ecology, and molecular characteristics. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.58381 EDGE Score: 3.10617 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 6.614 lbs (3.00 kg) | | Birth Weight [2] | 78 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 8.539 lbs (3.873 kg) | | Male Weight [2] | 5.785 lbs (2.624 kg) | | Weight Dimorphism [2] | 47.6 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Vertebrates) | | Diet - Ectothermic [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Endothermic [3] | 90 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 2 | | Clutches / Year [2] | 1 | | Fledging [2] | 71 days | | Incubation [4] | 43 days | | Maximum Longevity [6] | 45 years | | Raptor Research Conservation Priority [7] | 69 | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 30 inches (76 cm) | | Wing Span [4] | 6.56 feet (2 m) | | | Female Maturity [2] | 4 years 10 months |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Iberian conifer forests |
Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests |
Spain, Portugal |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Northwest Iberian montane forests |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests |
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alcántara reservoir-Cuatro Lugares |
Spain |
A1, A4i, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Alcudia valley and mountain range |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Aldeaquemada-Dañador |
Spain |
A1, B2, C1, C6 |
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Canalizos mountain range (Saceruela) |
Spain |
A1, A4ii, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Castro Verde plains |
Portugal |
A1, A3, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Central Badajoz mountain ranges |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Confidential |
Spain |
A1, C1 |
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Coria mountain ranges |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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El Escorial-San Martín de Valdeiglesias |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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El Pardo-Viñuelas |
Spain |
A1, A3, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Gredos and Candelario mountain ranges |
Spain |
B1i, B2, B3, C2, C6 |
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Guadalquivir marshes |
Spain |
A1, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3, C4, C6 |
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Las Villuercas mountain range |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Lebrija, Las Cabezas and Espera lagoons |
Spain |
A1, A4i, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Madrona and Andújar mountain ranges |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Medina and Puerto Real lagoons |
Spain |
A1, A4i, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C3, C6 |
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Medina-Sidonia |
Spain |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C3, C6 |
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Monfragüe |
Spain |
A1, A3, A4ii, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Mourão, Moura e Barrancos |
Portugal |
A1, A4i, B1i, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Northern slope of Guadarrama mountain range |
Spain |
A1, A4ii, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Puerto Peña reservoir-Valdecaballeros |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Rosarito and Navalcán reservoirs-La Iglesuela (Tietar valley) |
Spain |
A4i, B1i, B2, C2, C3, C6 |
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San Pedro mountain range |
Spain |
A1, A4i, A4ii, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C3, C6 |
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Sierra Morena de Córdoba |
Spain |
A1, A3, A4ii, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Sierra Morena de Sevilla |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Tietar valley |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Toledo mountains-Cabañeros |
Spain |
A1, A3, A4ii, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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West Andévalo |
Spain |
A1, B1i, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
Yes |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n ♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 6de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 7Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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