White-tailed Eagle

Haliaeetus albicilla

11,717Records since 2000

AugustPeak month

58Counties with records

Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1,021

Feb933

Mar1,229

Apr1,115

May814

Jun525

Jul477

Aug1,585

Sep1,420

Oct1,243

Nov642

Dec706

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

#	County	Nation	Records
1	Highland	Scotland	2,558
2	Argyll and Bute	Scotland	1,466
3	Na h-Eileanan Siar	Scotland	828
4	Dorset	England	641
5	Isle of Wight	England	415
6	Norfolk	England	204
7	Suffolk	England	121
8	Cambridgeshire	England	119
9	Kent	England	84
10	North Yorkshire	England	57
11	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	52
12	Causeway Coast and Glens	Northern Ireland	38
13	Fife	Scotland	37
14	Perth and Kinross	Scotland	36
15	Bath and North East Somerset	England	32

4,093 England7,556 Scotland2 Wales54 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

Records since 2000: 11,717
Peak month: August
Counties with records: 58
IUCN Red List: Least Concern
Scientific name: Haliaeetus albicilla
Group: Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000: 6,162
Most recorded in: Highland, Argyll and Bute, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Kent, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire
Conservation designations: Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, EU wildlife trade (CITES) annexes, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Haliaeetus
Name with authority: Haliaeetus albicilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described: 1758
Contributing datasets: 15