Species profile—Haliastur sphenurus (whistling kite)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Accipitridae (kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers) → Haliastur sphenurus (whistling kite)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Accipitridae (kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers)
- Scientific name
- Haliastur sphenurus (Vieillot, 1818)
- Common name
- whistling kite
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1707
- Alternate name(s)
- carrion hawk
whistling eagle-hawk
whistling eagle - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1707
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.