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Gurney's eagle

Aquila gurneyi G. R. Gray, 1861

NTNear Threatenedbirds of prey

The gurney's eagle (Aquila gurneyi) is a species in the family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes. Recorded adults weigh about 3.06 kg. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Near Threatened.

Gurney's eagle (Aquila gurneyi)
Photo: Joseph Wolf · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the gurney's eagle

Weight
3.06 kgsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Wingspan
1.65 m – 1.85 msrc for Wingspan
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Lifestyle
Aerialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the gurney's eagle?

GURNEY'S EAGLE · WINGSPAN 1.85 MADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 1.85 m, the recorded maximum wingspan of the gurney's eagle is close to the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the gurney's eagle live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The gurney's eagle is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the gurney's eagle?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Gurney's eagle (Aquila gurneyi) is a large eagle in the family Accipitridae. It is found in New Guinea and Wallacea, and is an occasional vagrant to Australia.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British banker and amateur ornithologist John Henry Gurney (1819–1890).

From the Wikipedia article “Gurney's eagle” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gurney%27s_eagle&oldid=1322270402), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the gurney's eagle endangered?

The gurney's eagle is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List: it is close to qualifying as threatened.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Near Threatened species.

How is the gurney's eagle classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderAccipitriformes
  5. familyAccipitridae
  6. genusAquila
  7. SpeciesAquila gurneyi G. R. Gray, 1861

Synonyms Spizaetus gurneyi

Other names and names in other languages (38)
  • عقاب غرونايArabic
  • Молукски орелBulgarian
  • àguila de GurneyCatalan
  • orel hnědýCzech
  • eryr GurneyWelsh
  • MolukørnDanish
  • MolukkenadlerGerman
  • Molukken-AdlerGerman
  • moluka agloEsperanto
  • Aguila MoluqueñaSpanish
  • Águila de las MolucasSpanish
  • Águila moluqueñaSpanish
  • paapua kotkasEstonian
  • papuankotkaFinnish
  • Aigle de GurneyFrench
  • mrki oraoCroatian
  • pápua sasHungarian
  • Gurney-sasHungarian
  • Rajawali kuskusIndonesian
  • Aquila di GurneyItalian
  • モルッカイヌワシJapanese
  • 몰루칸독수리Korean
  • molukinis erelisLithuanian
  • MolukkenarendDutch
  • Molukse ArendDutch
  • jungelørnNorwegian
  • orzeł moluckiPolish
  • águia-das-molucasPortuguese
  • Молуккский орёлRussian
  • orol tmavýSlovak
  • Gernijev oraoSerbian
  • gurneyörnSwedish
  • Gurneys örnSwedish
  • kuskusörnSwedish
  • Gurney KartalıTurkish
  • орел молуцькийUkrainian
  • 格氏雕Chinese
  • 格尼氏鵰Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the gurney's eagle

Other species in the same genus Aquila.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the gurney's eagle?

An adult gurney's eagle weighs 3.06 kg and has a wingspan of 1.65 m – 1.85 m, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the gurney's eagle live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the gurney's eagle for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the gurney's eagle endangered?

The gurney's eagle is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is close to qualifying as threatened.

What kind of animal is the gurney's eagle?

The gurney's eagle (Aquila gurneyi) belongs to the family Accipitridae in the order Accipitriformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Gurney's eagle (Aquila gurneyi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/gurney-s-eagle

MLA

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BibTeX
@misc{gurney_s_eagle_2026,
  title = {Gurney's eagle (Aquila gurneyi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/gurney-s-eagle},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}