[[File:Haliastur indus by Gregg Yan.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Haliastur indus'' sedang berehat di [[Davao City]], [[Filipina]].]]
ElangPada tahun [[1989]], elang bondol merupakandan [[salak condet]] dijadikan sebagai maskot kota [[Jakarta]].<ref name="Ven">{{cite web |url=http://graveonsix.blogspot.com/2012/03/elang-bondol-dan-salak-condet-maskot.html |title=Elang Bondol dan Salak Condet Maskot Kota Jakarta |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=29 March 2012 |work= |publisher= |accessdate=27 April 2012}}</ref> Hal itu bisa dilihat di kawasan Cempaka Putih. Di sana terdapat sebuah patung tegak berdiri, yakni patung "burung bondol membawa salak condet".<ref name="ven"> In India it is considered as the contemporary representation of [[Garuda]], the sacred bird of [[Vishnu]]. In Malaysia, the island of [[Langkawi]] is named after the bird ('kawi' denoting an [[ochre]]-like stone used to decorate pottery, and a reference to the bird's primary plumage colour).
A fable from central [[Bougainville Island]] relates how a mother left her baby under a banana tree while gardening, and the baby floated into the sky crying and transformed into ''Kaa'nang'', the Brahminy Kite, its necklace becoming the birds feathers.<ref>Hadden, p. 244</ref>
