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

Photo: Mdf · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Harpy eagle

Harpia harpyja (Linnaeus, 1758)

De harpij (Harpia harpyja) is een roofvogel behorend tot de familie havikachtigen (Accipitridae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd als Vultur harpyja in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. Het is de grootste soort van de groep der kuifarenden en de enige soort uit het geslacht Harpia.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Maximum lifespan
17 years
AnAge
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusHarpia
  7. ›speciesHarpia harpyja
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusHarpia
All 12 branches ↓
  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. 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, PanamaHarpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) arriving at a nest with a brown capuchin monkeyHarpia harpyja, Pará, BR, 2024-09-19 (iNaturalist).
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