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Harpy Eagle -- Camino del Oleoducto, Parque Nacional Soberania, Panama

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae

Birds

🦅Harpy eagle

Harpia harpyja (Linnaeus, 1758)

עיט הרפיה (שם מדעי: Harpia harpyja) הוא עוף דורס ממשפחת הנציים, החי ביערות הגשם הטרופיים שבמרכז ודרום אמריקה. נמנה עם העיטים הטרופיים, ומהווה את המין היחיד בסוגו. מין זה תואר לראשונה על ידי ליניאוס, שקרא לו Vultur harpyja ב-Systema naturae בשנת 1758. הוא נקרא על שם ההרפיות מן המיתולוגיה היוונית, והוא הציפור הלאומית של פנמה. הרפיה היא העוף החזק ביותר מבין העופות הדורסים בעולם.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/13th of your weight

Also called

American Harpy Eagle

Conservation status

VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing

Key measurements

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

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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Harpy eagle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

4.8 kg

AVONET

Other figures ↓

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 length

0.44 m

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

Wing length

0.57 m

AVONET

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

Beak length

0.07 m

AVONET

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

Tarsus length

0.1 m

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

Maximum lifespan

17 years

AnAge

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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level

Carnivore

AVONET

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

Habitat

Forest

AVONET

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

Lifestyle

Insessorial

AVONET

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

Volume l

4.8 Laverage

Details ↓

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.

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Full lineage

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kingdomMetazoa
phylumChordata
subphylumCraniata
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
superclassSarcopterygii
superclassTetrapoda
orderSauria
classBirds · Aves
orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
familyAccipitridae
genusHarpia

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Closest relative on this site

🦅 Golden eagle — last shared an ancestor ≈ 34 million years ago.

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In other languages

Harpyie (de), Harpia harpyja (es), Harpia harpyja (it), harpij (nl), Harpy (da), harpyija (fi) … and 27 more languages

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Harpy Eagle -- Camino del Oleoducto, Parque Nacional Soberania, Panama

Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) arriving at a nest with a brown capuchin monkey

Harpia harpyja, Pará, BR, 2024-09-19 (iNaturalist).

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