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The African hawk-eagle is powerfully built and hunts small to medium-sized mammals and birds predominantly, occasionally taking reptiles and other prey as well. [4] The call is a shrill kluu-kluu-kluu. [5] The African hawk-eagle is considered a fairly stable species and a species of Least Concern per the IUCN. [1]
The crowned eagle, also known as the African crowned eagle or the crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), is a large bird of prey found in sub-Saharan Africa; in Southern Africa, it is restricted to more easterly areas. [2] Its preferred habitats are principally riparian woodlands and various forests. [2]
The genus Hieraaetus, sometimes known as small eagles or hawk-eagles, denotes a group of smallish eagles usually placed in the accipitrid subfamilies Buteoninae [1] or Aquilinae. [ 2 ] They are generally medium-sized birds of prey inhabiting Europe, Asia, Africa, New Guinea and Australia.
Ayres's hawk-eagle has a patchy sub-Saharan distribution ranging from Sierra Leone east to Somalia, and south to northern Namibia and northeast South Africa. [4] Its central range is from the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and southern Uganda down almost throughout Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique as well as much of Angola to northeastern Namibia, northern Botswana and ...
Flores hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus floris (Hartert, EJO, 1898) 73 Mountain hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus nipalensis Hodgson, 1836: 74 Legge's hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus kelaarti (Legge, 1878) 75 Blyth's hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus alboniger Blyth, 1845: 76 Javan hawk-eagle: Accipitridae: Nisaetus bartelsi (Stresemann ...
Cassin's hawk-eagle (Aquila africana) or Cassin's eagle, is a relatively small eagle in the family Accipitridae. Its feathered legs mark it as member of the Aquilinae or booted eagle subfamily. A forest-dependent species, it occurs in primary rainforests across western, central and (marginally) eastern Africa where it preys on birds and tree ...
Bonelli's eagle and the African hawk-eagle have been moved from Hieraaetus to Aquila. Either the greater spotted eagle and lesser spotted eagle should move from Aquila to join the long-crested eagle in Lophaetus , or, perhaps better, all three of these species should move to Ictinaetus with the black eagle .
African fish eagle; African hawk-eagle; American Eagle Foundation; Andaman serpent eagle; Aquilinae; Ayres's hawk-eagle; B. Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act;