🦅Harpy eagle
Die Harpyie (Harpia harpyja) (Aussprache [haʁˈpʰyːjə]) ist eine sehr große, kräftig gebaute Greifvogelart. Die Art bewohnt die tropischen Wälder Mittel- und Südamerikas, nistet auf den über das Kronendach ragenden „Urwaldriesen“ und ernährt sich vor allem von Faultieren und Affen. Die Gattung Harpia ist monotypisch mit der Harpyie als einziger Art.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 4.8 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 17 years
Everything we know about the Harpy eagle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass4.8 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male4.4 kgWikidataQ53745
- Female7.5 kgWikidataQ53745
Figures vary
- 4.8 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.44 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.57 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan17 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatForestAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l4.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Harpy eagle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderAccipitriformes
- ›familyAccipitridae
- ›genusHarpia
- ›speciesHarpia harpyja
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusHarpia
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
- familyAccipitridae
- genusHarpia
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