Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus)

Family
Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles)

Size
63 - 71 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Wied, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 2,000 m, occasionally to 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus) [XC418760]
by Jerome Fischer from Secret\u00e1rio, Petr\u00f3polis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (flight call)

Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus) [XC366355]
by Rosendo Manuel Fraga from Capanema, Paran\u00e1, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Like Ornate Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus ornatus), not clearly related to Old World species of the genus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

serus Friedmann, 1950 - Central Mexico south to Colombia, whence east of Andes to the Guianas, Trinidad and Brazil, and south to Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina; recent records west of Andes in Ecuador and Peru (but not Colombia).
tyrannus (Wied, 1820) - Eastern and southern Brazil and extreme north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).

References
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Files:

JPG files for Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus) - 10 files

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