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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)

O gavião-real (nome científico: Harpia harpyja), também chamado cutucurim, harpia, uiraçu, uiracuir, uiruuetê, uraçu, águia-imperial-brasileira, águia-imperial ou uiraçu-verdadeiro, é uma ave acipitriforme da família dos acipitrídeos (Accipitridae). É a maior e mais poderosa ave de rapina encontrada em toda a sua extensão e está entre as maiores espécies de águias existentes no mundo. Geralmente habita florestas tropicais de baixa altitude na camada superior (emergente) do dossel. A destruição de seu habitat natural fez com que desaparecesse de muitas partes de seu antigo território e está quase extirpado de grande parte da América Central.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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86
Photos
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Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 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
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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.

More

More about the Harpy eagle

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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