Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Crowned Hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) - HBW 2, p. 205
French: Aigle couronné
German: Kronenadler
Spanish: Aguila Coronada
Other common names: (African) Crowned Eagle(!)
Taxonomy: Falco coronatus Linnaeus, 1766, coast of Guinea.
Monotypic genus; sometimes merged with Spizaetus, but skeletal anatomy recalls Harpia. Monotypic.
Distribution: Senegambia E to S Kenya and C Ethiopia, and S to Angola, NE Botswana and E South Africa.
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Pair on eyrie, copulating Locality Ithala Game Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Roland Bischoff 20 September 2011 1 year ago 30 sec 4.9 -
An adult preening Locality Tsavo West National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Jean Hupperetz 30 November 2003 9 years ago 28 sec 3.9 -
An adult in a tree, changing its position and flying away Locality Royal Mile, Budongo Forest, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2006 6 years ago 38 sec 3.2 -
An adult perched on a branch Locality Tsavo West National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Jean Hupperetz 30 November 2003 9 years ago 19 sec 3.2 -
A bird on a branch Locality Uganda (Monotypic species)
Rigdon Currie 31 July 2004 6 years ago 10 sec 3.1 -
A bird soaring Locality Mabira Forest, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 September 2006 5 years ago 34 sec 2.5
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Female (probably) at the nest.
Locality Wondo Genet, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Lars Petersson 9 January 2011 2 years ago 4.1 -
female on eyrie
Locality Ithala Game Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
Roland Bischoff 20 September 2011 1 year ago 3.8 -
A bird on a branch, in the evening.
Locality Aberdare National Park, Kenya
Jean Hupperetz 28 August 2011 1 year ago 3.3 -
Close-up of a bird
Locality Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Johannes Pfleiderer 4 August 2008 3 years ago 3.3 -
Perched on a dead branch.
Locality Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains National Park, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Ken Havard 4 November 2011 1 year ago 3.1 -
A very distant juvenile perched on a nest.
Locality Wondo Genet, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 2 February 2009 17 weeks ago 3
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female on nest, calling Locality Ithala Game Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
(Monotypic species)
Roland Bischoff 20 September 2011 1 year ago 4.5 -
Calling from a branch Locality Ithala Game Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
(Monotypic species)
Roland Bischoff 22 September 2011 1 year ago 4 -
Flight calls. Soaring above the forest at Dlinza. 10:03am. Locality Dlinza Forest Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
(Monotypic species)
Charles Hesse 8 January 2010 3 years ago 2
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