Mountain Hawk – Spizaetus nipalensis
I know about this interesting hawk species during surfing. However, found that not many information avaiable about this species. I think one of the good information is from wikipedia, therefore i would like to share with you about the information that I get from wikipedia.
The Mountain Hawk Eagle (Spizaetus nipalensis) is a bird of prey. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae.
Mountain Hawk Eagle breeds in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to China and Japan. It is a bird of mountain woodland, which builds a stick nest in a tree and lays usually a single egg.
Mountain Hawk Eagle is a medium-large raptor at about 70-72cm in length. It has a prominent crest.
The typical adult has brown upperparts and pale underparts, with barring on the undersides of the flight feathers and tail. The breast and belly and underwing coverts are heavily streaked. The wings are broad with a curved trailing edge, and are held in a shallow V in flight.
The heavier underpart streaking and wing shape help to distinguish this species from the similar Changeable Hawk Eagle, (Spizaetus cirrhatus).
Sexes are similar, but young birds are often whiter-headed. The Sri Lankan subspecies (S. n. kelaarti) is smaller and has unstreaked buff underwing coverts. Mountain Hawk Eagle eats small mammals, birds and reptiles.
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January 13th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Recently I meet with a new friend which keep some Mountain hawk Eagle and he actually train the bird.
I feel very lucky because I can learn many thing from him.
One of the important thing that I can learn is that there are two version of mountain hawk eagle. The one that live in Taiwan is larger compared to the rest of the family which live say in india.
The other thing is that the flying style of mountain hawk eagle. Based on him, mountain hawk eagle will fly from one tree to another tree and not soaring to search for their prey.
Based on their flying style, I guess they will likely to ‘ambush’ their preys.