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title: "Steppe Eagle"
description: "Aquila nipalensis — Uccelli. The steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) is a large bird of prey."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/steppe-eagle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Steppe Eagle

> Aquila nipalensis — Uccelli. The steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) is a large bird of prey.

- Scientific name: *Aquila nipalensis*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 6471
- Wikidata: [Q179359](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179359)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5083](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5083)

## Names

- en: Steppe Eagle
- de: Steppenadler
- es: Águila esteparia
- fr: Aigle des steppes
- nl: Steppearend
- pt: Águia-das-estepes
- pl: Orzeł stepowy

## Countries with the most observations

RU (2379), IN (994), KZ (583), IL (256), MN (228), GE (191), OM (139), NP (138), TZ (136), IR (133), KE (118), CN (101)

## Summary

The steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. The steppe eagle's well-feathered legs illustrate it to be a member of the subfamily Aquilinae, also known as the "Booted eagles". This species was once considered to be closely related to the sedentary tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy; two molecular studies, each based on a very small number of genes, indicate that the species are distinct but disagree over how closely…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_eagle

## Photo

![Steppe Eagle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/steppe-eagle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60691300

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/steppe-eagle?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).