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Wallace's Hawk-Eagle

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Photo by Joe PanSabah, Malaysia, August 2004
Photo by Joe Pan
Sabah, Malaysia, August 2004
Nisaetus nanus

Spizaetus nanus

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[edit] Identification

46 cm

  • Rufescent sides of head with blackish streaks
  • Dark crest broadly tipped white
  • Three dark bands on tail
  • Buffish-white base to underside flight feathers
  • Warm buffish coverts with narrow dark barring

[edit] Distribution

South-east Asia: found from Myanmar to the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra.

The subspecies stresemanni is only found on the Nias island of Sumatra.

[edit] Taxonomy

It was formerly placed in the genus Spizaetus.

[edit] Subspecies

JuvenilePhoto by horukuruGomantong Cave, Sabah, Borneo, November 2010
Juvenile
Photo by horukuru
Gomantong Cave, Sabah, Borneo, November 2010

Two subspecies are recognized

  • N. n. nanus:
  • N. n. stresemanni:
  • Nias Island (off western Sumatra)

[edit] Habitat

Evergreen rain forests, oil palm plantations.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
  2. BirdLife International

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