Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
NT
Crowned Hawk-Eagle*
Id (Atlas):
Stephanoaetus coronatus
Description (10 )
Crowned Hawk-Eagle
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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.
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte 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.
 
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 (58)... )
Listen to XC753427
Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus ) [XC753427 ]
by Lars Lachmann from Mount Kenya Forest (near Kamweti), Mount Kenya Forest, Kirinyaga County, Kenya (flight call, song)
Listen to XC513380
Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus ) [XC513380 ]
by Louis A. Hansen from Kiboni area (highest point open), Mafwemiro forest, most southern part, Mpwapwa, Dodoma Region, Tanzania (song)
Subspecies
Monotypic genus, sometimes merged with Spizaetus , but skeletal anatomy recalls Harpia .
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
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For more information about the Crowned Hawk-Eagle see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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