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Crowned Eagle
Stephanoaetus coronatus
Stephanoaetus coronatus is Africa's most powerful eagle in the only sense that matters — the size of what it can kill. It weighs only 3-4 kg, less than a martial eagle, but it routinely takes monkeys, small antelope and bushbuck fawns, with confirmed prey up to around 20 kg, sev…
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- The Crowned Eagle is strong enough to hunt prey weighing over 30 kg (66 lbs), often several times its own body weight.
- The pair's display flight is a steep undulating dive over the forest accompanied by a loud far-carrying whistle, one of the definitive sounds of African forest. Nests are enormous platforms of sticks reused for decades and can reach 2 m across, and the bone litter beneath a long-used nest is a valuable record of local mammal populations. In some forests monkeys give a distinct alarm call reserved for this eagle alone. It survives in surprisingly small forest patches and even in wooded suburbs of South African cities, where it takes cats and small dogs.
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