About this species
The Greater Spotted Eagle (Clanga clanga) is a large migratory raptor associated with forests and wetlands across Europe and northern Asia. Within the Central Asian Flyway (CAF), it breeds from western Russia through western Siberia to northeastern China, with migratory populations wintering in the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan, the Middle East, and parts of Southeast Asia. The species inhabits mature wet forests, floodplains, marshes, bogs, and other wetlands, feeding on small mammals, waterbirds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and carrion. It nests in large trees near wetlands, where it raises a single chick in most years due to sibling competition. Globally classified as Vulnerable, the species is threatened by wetland drainage, habitat loss and fragmentation, agricultural intensification, human disturbance, electrocution and poisoning, making the conservation of wetland landscapes across its migratory range essential.
