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Spizaetus is the typical hawk-eagle birds of prey genus found in the tropics of the Americas.It was however used to indicate a group of tropical eagles that included species occurring in southern and southeastern Asia and one representative of this genus in the rainforests of West Africa.
The black-and-white hawk-eagle (Spizaetus melanoleucus, formerly Spizastur melanoleucus) is a bird of prey species in the eagle and hawk family (Accipitridae). It is found throughout a large part of tropical America, from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. [2]
[5] [6] [7] Full grown weights for black-and-chestnut eagles have been reported as 1.5 to 3.5 kg (3.3 to 7.7 lb), [7] making it among neotropic eagles around the same body size as the two largest Buteogallus and the black-chested buzzard-eagle, at least twice as heavy as other Spizaetus and slightly heavier than the notably longer crested eagle.
The ornate hawk-eagle is a member of the booted eagle subfamily, with the signature well-feathered tarsus present on both tropical and temperate species (and shared, presumably through convergent evolution, with a pair of buteonine hawks). [4] [6] It is one of four living members of the Spizaetus species of "hawk-eagle" native to the neotropics.
The black hawk-eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus), also known as the tyrant hawk-eagle, [3] is a species of eagle found from central Mexico through Central America [4] into the south of Brazil to Colombia, eastern Peru, and as far as northern Argentina. [5]
Blyth's hawk-eagle (Nisaetus alboniger) (earlier treated as Spizaetus) [2] is a medium-sized bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. It can be found in the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. [3] It is a bird of open woodland, although island forms prefer a higher tree density.
Bald eagles were federally delisted from the endangered species list in 2007. Their status on the Pennsylvania list was changed to protected in 2014. 2023: What's joining, ...
The habitat selection and overall distribution of the changeable hawk-eagle is largely concurrent with other largish raptors such as the crested serpent eagle and the crested honey buzzard, apparently the three species are largely tolerant and non-aggressive towards each other, perhaps surprisingly given the otherwise aggressive habits of hawk ...