Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus)

Other Names (World)
Crowned Eagle, Crowned Hawk-Eagle(!), African Crowned Eagle(!)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
92 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Benin, Botswana.

Senegambia east to southern Kenya and central Ethiopia, and south to Angola, north-eastern Botswana and eastern South Africa.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 10,000 (2010).

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (57)...)

Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) [XC442476]
by Frank Lambert from Between Port Alfred and Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call, display)

Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) [XC443695]
by Louis A. Hansen from Makhado (near Louis Trichardt), Far North, Limpopo, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Monotypic genus, sometimes merged with Spizaetus, but skeletal anatomy recalls Harpia.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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