Long-crested Eagle  (Lophaetus occipitalis)

CAR summary data

Habitat and noted behaviour

Sightings per Kilometre

Please note: The below charts indicate the sightings of individuals along routes where the species has occured, and NOT across all routes surveyed through the CAR project.

 

Global Status

IUCN Data (Global)

IUCN 2024. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-1 (www)

Assessment year: 2016

Assessment Citation

BirdLife International 2016. Lophaetus occipitalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22696134A93546422. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22696134A93546422.en. Accessed on 09 March 2025.

Population:

The population is estimated to number in the tens of thousands.

Rationale:

This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be increasing, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Trend justification:

The population is suspected to be increasing as ongoing habitat degradation is creating new areas of suitable habitat. As a rodent eating species it is regarded locally as beneficial and therefore is little persecuted (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001).