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Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), at Ndumo Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (28947411865)🦅

Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Crowned Eagle

Stephanoaetus coronatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

The crowned eagle, also known as the African crowned eagle or the crowned hawk-eagle, is a large bird of prey found in sub-Saharan Africa; in Southern Africa, it is restricted to more easterly areas. Its preferred habitats are principally riparian woodlands and various forests. The crowned eagle is the only extant member of the genus Stephanoaetus. A second species, the Malagasy crowned eagle, went extinct after early humans settled on Madagascar.

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Also called
Crowned hawk-eagle, Crowned Hawk-Eagle
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.64 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Crowned Eagle

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Body mass
3.64 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male3.41 kgWikidataQ591640
  • Female3.94 kgWikidataQ591640
Tail length
0.37 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.5 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
3.6 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Crowned Eagle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusStephanoaetus
  7. ›speciesStephanoaetus coronatus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusStephanoaetus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  11. familyAccipitridae
  12. genusStephanoaetus
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águila coronada (es), Àguila coronada (ca), orel korunkatý (cs), Kronørn (da), Kronenadler (de), keisarijalokotka (fi) … and 22 more languages
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Crowned Eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), at Ndumo Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa (28947411865)African crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) immature
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