Clanga (bird)

Not to be confused with Douglas Spotted Eagle or Faith Spotted Eagle.

Clanga is a genus which contains the spotted eagles. The genus name is from Ancient Greek klangos, "eagle".^[2]

Clanga
Greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Aquilinae
Genus:	Clanga Adamowicz, 1854
Type species
Falco maculatus[1] Gmelin, 1788

A molecular phylogenetic study of the Accipitridae published in 2024 found that the genus Clanga was sister to the genus Ictinaetus which contains the black eagle.^[3]

Species

Genus Clanga – Adamowicz, 1854 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Indian spotted eagle	Clanga hastata (Lesson, 1834)	Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Nepal.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU  2,500 - 9,999[4]
Lesser spotted eagle	Clanga pomarina Brehm, 1831	Central and Eastern Europe and southeastward to Turkey and Armenia, and Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC  40,000 - 60,000[5]
Greater spotted eagle	Clanga clanga ((Pallas, 1811)	northern Europe eastwards across Eurasia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU  3,900 - 10,000[6]

Notes

References

1. "Accipitridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
3. Catanach, T.A.; Halley, M.R.; Pirro, S. (2024). "Enigmas no longer: using ultraconserved elements to place several unusual hawk taxa and address the non-monophyly of the genus Accipiter (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: blae028. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blae028.
4. BirdLife International (2016). "Clanga hastata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22729779A95021573. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22729779A95021573.en. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
5. BirdLife International (2021). "Clanga pomarina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22696022A203665834. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22696022A203665834.en. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
6. BirdLife International (2021). "Clanga clanga". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22696027A203868747. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22696027A203868747.en. Retrieved 27 October 2024.