Family: Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1766)

Red List Category

Criteria: C1

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Justification of Red List category
This species has a moderately small population which appears to be suffering an ongoing decline in its Asiatic strongholds, despite the fact that in parts of Europe numbers are now increasing. Consequently it qualifies as Near Threatened.

Population size: 16800-22800 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 22,400,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Afrotropical
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial
Raptors MOU