Endangered
Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle
Nisaetus pinskeri
Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle is a bird in the family Accipitridae (order Accipitriformes) — Nisaetus pinskeri, recorded as Endangered and tied to Philippines.
Appearance
It was formerly conspecific with the Philippine hawk-eagle but has a longer crest, smaller size, gray plumage and heavily barred belly and legs.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Philippines native to the islands of Leyte, Samar, Negros, Basilan, Bohol and Mindanao. It is found in primary moist lowland forest and tropical moist montane forest up to 1,900 m. It is threatened by habitat loss and hunting.
It is found in a few protected areas among them Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape, Mount Kanlaon, Pasonanca Natural Park, Mount Apo, Mount Kitanglad, Mount Hamiguitan, Mount Malindang, Samar Island Natural Park and Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park but actual protection from deforestation is still lax.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Not much information of its diet in the wild but believed to feed mostly on birds. Based on unpublished data collected by the curators taking care of a captive Pinsker's hawk in Philippine Eagle Conservation Center (Philippine Eagle Foundation), every breeding season the natural pair hawk eagles produces one egg.
Unlike the Philippine eagle that is naturally producing one egg in every two years, the N. Pinskeri lays egg every year. During this time, the parent hawk eagles will intentionally stop delivering the food within the nest platform, instead to the nearest branch and eventually to the distanced branches to encourage the young for branching and flying in short distances.
In crisis
The Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle is listed as Endangered species (IUCN status) with estimates of 1,300-3,600 mature individuals remaining, as of 2024.
Pinsker's 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 Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle, Wikidata item Q1264856. 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.
