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Species › Birds

Spanish Imperial Eagle

Aquila adalberti

Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
Presence in the Strait
Resident
Protection in Spain
In danger of extinction · Andalusian Catalogue
In Spanish
Águila imperial ibérica

Photograph: Antonio Lucio Carrasco Gómez, CC BY-SA 3.0, vía Wikimedia Commons

Length
75–84 cm
Wingspan
180–215 cm
Weight
2,500–3,500 g
0100200LENGTH75–84 cmWINGSPAN180–215 cmcentimetres

Presence in the Strait

Breeding two couples in the area since 2008. Rare winter visitor (<5) to La Janda farmlands, especially at Finca Las Lomas (Benalup), where they bred until the first quarter of the 20th Century. Also in the Vejer pine forests and in the Ojén Valley.

Identification

Adults are very large and blackish, with white scapulars and leading edges to wings and grey tail-base with a black terminal band. Juveniles are reddish-brown with dark primaries, trailing edge of wing and tail.

Movements

Usually juveniles and sub-adults dispersal. Records every month of the year except May, with peaks from August to January (89%).

Ring recoveries

Three juveniles and one sub-adult from Doñana National Park (Huelva), and one adult (9 years) from the Mountains of Toledo.

Bioestrecho editorial text. Last revised: 8 September 2026.

Gallery

Photographs from iNaturalist observations with the licence checked file by file. Those marked “Strait” were taken within the area; place and date are those of each observation.