Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Accipitriformes > Accipitridae > Nisaetus > Nisaetus cirrhatus

Nisaetus cirrhatus (Crested Hawk-Eagle; Changeable Hawk-eagle)

Synonyms: Spizaetus cirrhatus

Infraspecies

Nisaetus cirrhatus andamanensis
Nisaetus cirrhatus ceylanensis
Nisaetus cirrhatus cirrhatus
Nisaetus cirrhatus limnaeetus
Nisaetus cirrhatus vanheurni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.40497
EDGE Score: 2.24124
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.254 lbs (1.476 kg)
Female Weight [1]  3.512 lbs (1.593 kg)
Male Weight [1]  2.998 lbs (1.36 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  17.1 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  50 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [4]  71
Snout to Vent Length [1]  26 inches (67 cm)
Speed [5]  25.277 MPH (11.3 m/s)
Wing Span [5]  4.395 feet (1.34 m)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Philippines Philippines No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Prey / Diet

Varanus bengalensis (Bengal Monitor)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Haliaeetus leucogaster (White-bellied Sea Eagle)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Carinema fotedari <Unverified Name>[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 5Pande, S., A. Padhye, P. Deshpande, A. Ponkshe, P. Pandit, A. Pawashe, S. Pednekar, R. Pandit & P. Deshpande (2013). Avian collision threat assessment at ‘Bhambarwadi Wind Farm Plateau’ in northern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(1): 3504–3515
♦ 6Population Status of Two Varanus species (Reptilia: Sauria: Varanidae) in Sri Lanka’s Puttalam Lagoon System, with Notes on their Diet and Conservation Status, D.M.S. SURANJAN KARUNARATHNA, A.A. THASUN AMARASINGHE, MAJINTHA B. MADAWALA & H.K. DUSHANTHA KANDAMBI, Biawak, 6(1), pp. 22-33 2012
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0