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The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is a large neotropical species of eagle.It is also called the American harpy eagle to distinguish it from the Papuan eagle, which is sometimes known as the New Guinea harpy eagle or Papuan harpy eagle. [5] It is the largest bird of prey throughout its range, [6] and among the largest extant species of eagles in the world. It usually inhabits tropical lowland ...
Harpia wielka [5] (Harpia harpyja) – gatunek dużego ptaka drapieżnego z rodziny jastrzębiowatych (Accipitridae); jedyny przedstawiciel rodzaju Harpia [5] [6]. Zamieszkuje lasy tropikalne w Ameryce Południowej i Środkowej, od południowego Meksyku do północnej Argentyny.
Podstawowe fakty dotyczące Harpia wielka: długość życia, mapa rozmieszczenia i siedlisk, styl życia i zachowania społeczne, zwyczaje godowe, dieta i odżywianie, wielkość i status populacji.
Basic facts about Harpy Eagle: lifespan, distribution and habitat map, lifestyle and social behavior, mating habits, diet and nutrition, population size and status.
Massive bird of prey, restricted to mature forest and always rare. Enormous talons. Adult is dark gray above, paler below, with obvious dark breast band. Note more obvious black-and-white barring on wings in flight to help separate it from Crested Eagle.
It has a very large territory and is patchily distributed (Thiollay 1989). In Brazil, it is most common in Amazonia, and rare in the Atlantic forest (Banhos et al. 2018). It is now very scarce in Mexico (A. Monroy-Ojeda in litt. 2021) and in Costa Rica (C. Sánchez in litt. 2021).
The harpy eagle is considered critically endangered in Mexico and Central America, where it has been extirpated in most of its former range; in Mexico, it used to be found as far north as Veracruz, but today probably occurs only in Chiapas in the Selva Zoque.
