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

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Crowned Eagle

Stephanoaetus coronatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

El águila coronada (Stephanoaetus coronatus) es una especie de ave accipitriforme de la familia Accipitridae, es la única especie viva del género Stephanoaetus. Habita los bosques del África subsahariana, donde está ampliamente distribuida. No se conocen subespecies.​ Su dieta de base está compuesta de monos, en particular los del género Chlorocebus, y otros mamíferos de tamaño mediano, como los cefalofos y pequeños antílopes.​ En una medida mucho menor, se alimenta también de aves y grandes lagartos.​ Sin embargo, el 98 % de su dieta consiste de mamíferos. A pesar de que pesa menos y tiene una envergadura más pequeña que el águila marcial (aunque su longitud total media supera a la del águila marcial), el águila coronada es el águila más poderosa y feroz de África en términos de la naturaleza y el peso de las presas tomadas ya que se alimenta principalmente de mamíferos como antílopes, que pesan hasta 30 kg.​

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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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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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Beak length
0.05 m
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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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In other languages
águila coronada (es), Àguila coronada (ca), orel korunkatý (cs), Kronørn (da), Kronenadler (de), keisarijalokotka (fi) … and 22 more languages
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