Ornate Hawk-eagle

Ornate Hawk-eagle

Taxobox
name = Ornate Hawk-eagle



image_width = 200px
image_caption = Immature, Darién National Park (Panama)
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
subclassis = Neornithes
infraclassis = Neognathae
superordo = Neoaves
ordo = Falconiformes
familia = Accipitridae
genus = "Spizaetus"
species = "S. ornatus"
binomial = "Spizaetus ornatus"
binomial_authority = (Daudin, 1800)

The Ornate Hawk-eagle, "Spizaetus ornatus", is a bird of prey from the tropical Americas. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae.

This is a medium-large raptor, at about 58-64 cm (23-25 in) in length, and weighing about 1200 g (42 oz). It has a prominent pointed crest, raised when excited, a black bill, broad wings and a long rounded tail.

The typical adult has blackish upperparts and crown, bright chestnut sides to the neck and breast and a black-edged white throat and central breast. The rest of the underparts and feathered legs are white barred with black, and the tail has broad black bars. The underwings are white, with barred flight feathers; due to the heavy pattern birds usually look rather dark in flight. Sexes are similar, but young birds have a white head, crest and underparts, with brown upperparts, and barring only on the flanks and legs.

The call is a high-pitched "whee-oo whee-oo".

It is found in humid tropical forests from southern Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula, to Trinidad and Tobago, south to Peru and Argentina. Ornate Hawk-eagles eat mainly birds, with some small mammals, and reptiles. The male's courtship display is a dive with folded wings, and a climb, sometimes completing a loop. The pair will touch talons in flight as the female rolls on her back.

They build a large stick nest in a high tree (e.g. "Ceiba"), many meters above ground. The nest is around 1 meter (3 ft) in diameter. Most breeding activity occurs around April/May, differing slightly according to location: in Guatemala breeding activity was observed from March to June, in Costa Rica in April and May, in Panama from November/December to May, and in the lowlands of Ecuador in March and April. [Greeney "et al." (2004)]

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=49469|title=Spizaetus ornatus|downloaded=12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* (1991): "A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago" (2nd edition). Comstock Publishing, Ithaca, N.Y.. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2
* (2004): Notes on breeding birds from an Ecuadorian lowland forest. "Bull. B.O.C." 124(1): 28-37. [http://depts.washington.edu/nhrg/Greeney,%20Gelis%20%26%20White%202004.pdf PDF fulltext]
* (2003): "Birds of Venezuela". Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3559&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/3023400.htm Stamps] (for Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Venezuela)
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=ornate+hawk-eagle&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Ornate Hawk-eagle photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Spizaetus+ornatus Photo-High Res]
* [http://www.birdwatchperu.com/assets/hornate.jpgPhoto-Medium Res] ; [http://www.birdwatchperu.com/TR_machupicchu_y_cusco.html Article] birdwatchperu
* [http://www.riorvpark.com/Images/Bird%20Photos/Raptor_Ornate_Hawk_Eagle_49.jpgPhoto-High Res] ; [http://www.riorvpark.com/El_Cielo_&_El_Salto_April_2005.htm Article]


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