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title: "Zwarte arend"
description: "Aquila verreauxii — Vogels. Verreaux's eagle (; Aquila verreauxii) is a large, mostly African, bird of prey."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/verreaux-s-eagle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zwarte arend

> Aquila verreauxii — Vogels. Verreaux's eagle (; Aquila verreauxii) is a large, mostly African, bird of prey.

- Scientific name: *Aquila verreauxii*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Bergen)
- iNaturalist observations: 1834
- Wikidata: [Q747827](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q747827)
- iNaturalist taxon: [5077](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5077)

## Names

- en: Verreaux's Eagle
- de: Klippenadler
- es: Águila cafre
- fr: Aigle de Verreaux
- nl: Zwarte arend
- pt: Águia-negra-africana
- pl: Orzeł czarny

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1324), NA (181), KE (53), ZW (34), TZ (32), OM (18), ET (8), LS (8), ZM (8), BW (7), AO (5), SA (5)

## Summary

Verreaux's eagle (; Aquila verreauxii) is a large, mostly African, bird of prey.  It is also called the black eagle, especially in southern Africa, not to be confused with the black eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis) of south and southeast Asia. The Verreaux's eagle lives in hilly and mountainous regions of southern and eastern Africa (extending marginally into Chad, Mali and Niger), and very locally in the Middle East.
Verreaux's eagle is one of the most specialized species of accipitrid in the world, with its distribution and life history revolving around its favorite prey species, the rock hyraxes. When hyrax populations…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreaux%27s_eagle

## Photo

![Zwarte arend](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/verreaux-s-eagle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ludwig Muller · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62108624

## Machine access

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