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 NT    Crowned Hawk-Eagle* Id (Atlas):
    Stephanoaetus coronatus

Description (10)
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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.

Range (Guide)
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)...)

 
Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) [XC379064]
     by Derek Solomon from East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)

 
Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) [XC450935]
     by Louis A. Hansen from Vikongwa camp and general area, Ndundulu, Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania (song)

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

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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