Ornate hawk-eagle
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The ornate hawk-eagle is a bird of prey from the tropical Americas. Formerly, some authorities referred to this species as the crested hawk-eagle, a name that may cause some confusion as it is more co
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Immature, Darién National Park (Panama)
Adult in flight, Darién National Park (Panama)
A wild adult in Campeche, Mexico showing characteristic preference for dense forest with tall trees
Spizaetus
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Spizaetus is the typical hawk-eagle birds of prey genus found in the tropics of the Americas. It was however used to indicate a group of tropical eagles that included species occurring in southern and
Ornate hawk-eagle
…and temperate species (and shared, presumably through convergent evolution, with a pair of buteonine hawks). It is one of four living members of the Spizaetus genus of "hawk-eagle" native to the neotropics. At one time, Old World hawk-eagles, native to various southern areas of Asia, were also included in the…
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