Philippines: Monkey-eating Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi)
Puerto Rico: Bananaquit
South Africa: Blue Crane ...
Great Philippine Eagle, Monkey-eating Eagle, Philippine Monkey-eating Eagle
Bird Family :
Accipitrinae - Hawks, bazas, honey-buzzards, eagles, kites, vultures, harriers & buzzards ...
Great Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi
Described by: Ogilvie-Grant (1896)
Alternate common name(s): Philippine Eagle, Monkey-eating Eagle, Philippine Monkey-eating Eagle
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
The Philippine Eagle is sometimes known as the Monkey-eating Eagle. While they do eat monkeys such as long-tailed macaques, flying lemurs are much more common prey.
The gray and Steller's sea eagles (also in the genus Haliaetus) are native to colder areas of the Northern Hemisphere; the king or imperial eagle to S Europe and Asia; and the rare monkey-eating eagle to the Philippines.
 See also: Monkey, Eagle, Hawk, Harpy eagle, Buzzard
  
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