Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Solitary Eagle FAMILY - Accipitridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Harpyhaliaetus solitarius SYNONYMS - Circaėtus solitarius - Tschudi, 1844 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 15 Insufficient information, uncertain 16 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 16 Threatened in Belize 15 Endangered in Belize 15 Rare: low density, unlikely to be seen, few localities 12 Resident, species present all year. 2 District Reference Belize 3 Cayo 4 Stann Creek 6 Toledo 8 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Chiquibul National Park Sighting December 17 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Sighting Dry season 10 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 7 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 9 Chiquibul National Park Sighting August 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 11 Guanacaste National Park Sighting Dry season 10 Chiquibul National Park 9 Hidden Valley & Falls (Bull Run) 7 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Sighting Dry season 5 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Dry season 3 Private land, see comments 6 Hydrologic Association Reference Cox's Lagoon 3 Sittee River 6 Elevation Reference 1100-1200 m 17 1100-1200 m 8 1-200 m 14 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 10 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 3 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 14 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 6 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 17 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 14 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 8 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 17 General Distribution Comments 15* Rare northern semideciduous moist forest. Rare southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Rare sub-tropical lower montane forest. 6* Possum Point Biological Station 4* The presence of this species in Belize is still in question. Most likely mis-identified Black Hawk. 3* Permanent resident, rare southern hardwood forests and Mountain Pine Ridge. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 3 Hunt, H. R., J. Tamarack. 1992. Cox Lagoon Crocodile Preserve. Unpub. report. pp.4-8. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 6 Anon. 1993. Bird Checklist for Possum Point Biological Station, Sittee River, Belize 7 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 8 Matola, S., compiler. 1989. Doyle's Delight, 20 - 31 August. Unpublished report. 9 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 10 Clinton-Eitniear, J. 1986. Status of the large Forest Eagles of Belize. Birds of Prey Bull. No. 3:107-110. 11 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 12 Moutfort, guy. 1988. Rare Birds of the World. Collins/ICBP Handbook. p.92. 13 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 14 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 15 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 16 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 17 Conway, C. J., S.J. Baird. 1995. Ornithology Report for the Doyle's Delight Expedition, Maya Mountains, Belize, 3-13 December 1993. Occasional Series No. 5. Forest Planning and Management Project, Ministry of Natural Resources, Belmopan, Belize.
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