Stats

Lifespan

15-20 yrs

Size

Large

Diet

Carnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Tropical rainforest

Range

South America

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Endangered

About

This powerful raptor dwells in the dense, high-altitude forests of the Andes. Its talons exert enough pressure to crush the skulls of monkeys twice its own weight.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   One or two eggs are incubated on a high stick nest or cliff ledge, guarded closely by the pair.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A downy hatchling is fed torn meat by its parents and grows quickly in a high nest.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to soar and to make its first kills.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown, hunting on its own with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Accipitriformes

Family

Accipitridae

Genus

Spizaetus

Species

Spizaetus isidori