Endangered
Philippine Hawk-Eagle
Nisaetus philippensis
Philippine Hawk-Eagle is a bird in the family Accipitridae (order Accipitriformes) — Nisaetus philippensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Philippine hawk-eagle is a large raptor with a dark brown upper plumage and a pale brown belly. It was formerly conspecific with the Pinsker's hawk-eagle but has a shorter crest, larger size, browner plummage and plain markings on the belly.
In terms of size, it is a smaller eagle with a length of 56 to 67 cm, and a wingspan of 105 to 125 cm.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and trapping.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
This nest was livestreamed daily on Facebook. This breeding pair nested in a Bombax ceiba tree in secondary forest with a territory spanning 3.3 square kilometers.
Not much information of its diet in the wild but believed to feed mostly on birds and small mammals. The nest in 2020 revealed the diet to consist of 35% birds, 32% mammals, 6% reptiles and the remaining 27% to be unknown.
In crisis
The IUCN Red List has assessed this bird as endangered with the population being estimated at 1,000 to 2,000 mature individuals as of 2024, continuing to decrease. This species' main threat is habitat loss with wholesale clearance of forest habitats as a result of logging, agricultural conversion and mining activities occurring within the range. Study the species's ecology, particularly home-range size and dispersal ability to help inform a global population estimate and assess the likely impact of habitat fragmentation.
Assess forest loss in the Philippines and gauge the species's likely rate of decline and degree of fragmentation of its populations. The story is about a poacher capturing a chick and how citizens united to return this chick to its parents.
Philippine Hawk-Eagle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Philippine Hawk-Eagle, Wikidata item Q1262028. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
