Europe's rarest eagle with an estimated 250 pairs, mostly in Spain with perhaps a few in Portugal (est 1-3 pairs in 2004). Breeds only in west Palearctic. Has declined historically due to persecution, habitat degradation, and electrocution by powerlines and total population was as low as 30 pairs in the 1970s. Happily a slow recovery has been facilitated since then and its name in English might be changed to Iberian Imperial Eagle if it consolidates its presence in Portugal!
This bird is a second-calendar year in process of moulting its first plumage and was photographed near Monte de Guerreiro, Beja, Portugal.
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)