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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)

非洲冠鵰，又稱王冠鵰、冕雕、冠雕、非洲王冠鵰、非洲冕雕、冕鷹鵰、冠鷹鵰、王冠鷹雕，是撒哈拉以南非洲最大的猛禽。在南部非洲主要棲息於河岸林地與各種森林中。非洲冠鵰是非洲冠鵰屬中的唯一物種，此屬中的另一物種馬達加斯加冠鵰於人們開拓馬達加斯加時滅絕。

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≈ 1/17th of your weight
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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Everything we know about the Crowned Eagle

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

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

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

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

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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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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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAccipitriformes
  5. ›familyAccipitridae
  6. ›genusStephanoaetus
  7. ›speciesStephanoaetus coronatus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderHawks & eagles · Accipitriformes
  3. familyAccipitridae
  4. genusStephanoaetus
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  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. genusStephanoaetus
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águila coronada (es), Àguila coronada (ca), orel korunkatý (cs), Kronørn (da), Kronenadler (de), keisarijalokotka (fi) … and 22 more languages
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