Featured Article: Ornate Hawk-Eagle
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Identification
23 - 26 inches, wingspan 3 - 4 feet, weight 2 to 3 1/2 pounds
- Prominent pointed crest, raised when excited
- Black bill
- Broad wings
- Long rounded tail
- Black crown and upperparts
- Bright chestnut sides to neck and breast
- Black-edged white throat and central breast
- Remaining underparts and feathered legs are white barred with black
- Broad black bars on tail
- White underwings
Distribution
Central America (from southern Mexico) and subtropical and tropical South America including Trinidad.
