Learn what every symbol on the card means.Full credits and sources at beakbrain.com/symbols
ForestPlatform nestHuge · 3.0 kg
ID tip
Voice: Mountain hawk-eagles are silent apart from their breeding season. Their call is a shrill treble note, with a quality often compared to a penny whistle. Their typical call is often likened to the klu-weet-weet of a green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) or the kee-kikik of the common green magpie (Cissa chinensis). Sometimes the call is written in Japan as pie-pie-pie or pipipi.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
When to see the Mountain Hawk-Eagle
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Mountain Hawk-Eagle
The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Mountain Hawk-Eagle
The mountain hawk-eagle or Hodgson's hawk-eagle, is a large bird of prey native to Asia. The latter name is in reference to the naturalist, Brian Houghton Hodgson, who described the species after collecting one himself in the Himalayas. A less widely recognized common English name is the feather-toed eagle. Like all eagles, it is in the family Accipitridae. Its feathered tarsus marks this species as a member of the subfamily Aquilinae. It is a confirmed breeding species in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, from India, Nepal through Bangladesh to Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Japan, although its distribution could be wider still as breeding species.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Easily confused with
Wallace's Hawk-EagleNisaetus nanusWallace's hawk-eagle is a species of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.
Blyth's Hawk-EagleNisaetus albonigerBlyth's hawk-eagle is a medium-sized bird of prey.
Legge's Hawk-EagleNisaetus kelaartiLegge's hawk-eagle is a bird of prey.
Side by side: Changeable Hawk-Eagle vs Mountain Hawk-Eagle · Barred Hawk vs Mountain Hawk-Eagle · Mountain Hawk-Eagle vs Square-tailed Kite
Learn the Mountain Hawk-Eagle in the BeakBrain App
Photo and call practice. Coming soon to iPhone and Android.
Play today's Daily BirdEvery photo and recording on this page is credited to its author under the licence shown. Spotted a problem with this page, or have a better photo? Contribute.