Burung pemangsa (Birds of Prey)
Philippine Eagle
Pithecophaga jefferyi
- legendaris
- 48 km/h
- Kritis
The monkey-eating eagle. Largest eagle by wing surface area. Filipino national treasure.
- Populasi
- Roughly 400 breeding pairs; estimates range from 180–600 to fewer than 500 total wild individuals, an approximate figure in the low hundreds of pairs / low-to-mid hundreds of individuals
- Habitat
- Dipterocarp and mid-montane forest on steep terrain, from lowlands up to roughly 1,800 m elevation; increasingly restricted to mountain forest as lowland forest is cleared
- Fakta menarik
- The Philippine Eagle has one of the longest breeding cycles of any raptor: a monogamous pair, together for life, typically rears just a single chick once every two years, with the fledgling remaining dependent on its parents for up to 17 months.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to the Philippines, surviving only on four islands: Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao (largest surviving population on Mindanao)
- Makanan
- Apex forest predator taking flying lemurs (colugos, up to ~90% of diet at some sites), monkeys/macaques, civets, flying squirrels/tree squirrels, snakes, monitor lizards, and large birds (e.g. hornbills)
- Ukuran
- 0,95 m
- Masa hidup
- 25 tahun
