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Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)Where and when to see it in the UK

Vagrant · reporting peaks November · Kites, Old World Vultures, Eagles, and Hawks · BOU category AE

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)
Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Booted Eagle: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Booted Eagle has been recorded in 13 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Vagrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in November.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
SW53Cornwall, England42025unverified
SW33Cornwall, England32024 to 2025unverified
TM59Suffolk, England12025unverified
SU78Oxfordshire, England32024unverified
TQ50East Sussex, England12015unverified
TM05Suffolk, England12010unverified
SS79Neath Port Talbot, Wales12008unverified
SS78Neath Port Talbot, Wales12008unverified
SS99Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales12008unverified
ST44Somerset, England42000 to 2002unverified
ST55Somerset, England202000unverified
ST56North Somerset, England32000unverified
ST43Somerset, England12000unverified

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.