Bird watching is not just a fun and peaceful activity, as it teaches patience, sharpens observation skills, and helps one feel closer to nature. It is rarely considered a dangerous activity. However, ...

Bird-watching isn’t usually a dangerous game, even if it’s deep in the jungle of French Guiana. But when one woman strayed a little too far behind a tour group after spotting a large bird of prey, she ...

Harpy eagles feed on a large variety of Neotropical mammals ranging from sloths to monkeys to coatis. While the Americas are rife with all sorts of fearsome birds of prey—the golden eagle, Cooper's ...

The harpy is one of the largest species of eagle. As is often the case with birds of prey, females are larger than males. The birds can grow to 36 to 40 inches. Females weigh between 13 to 20 pounds.

In November 2020, a photograph supposedly showing a rainbow-colored harpy eagle circulated on social media: This is not a genuine photograph of a harpy eagle. This image was digitally edited to make ...

Monitoring, research, tourism, photography and environmental education are the tools to protect Brazil’s largest bird of prey, which currently has large and diverse populations only in the Amazon. The ...

In the lowland Neotropical forests of Central and South America, concentrated in Amazonia, a powerful symbol for biodiversity soars through the canopy. One of earth’s largest eagles in terms of mass, ...

The day kicked off to a good start as early in the morning we watched the nest of a harpy eagle. We also visited some additional forest fragments in the urban area of Alta Floresta where logging ...

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The incident, which took place in the forest in French Guiana, was an extremely rare occurrence Joshua Rapp Learn - Contributing Writer Bird-watching isn’t usually a dangerous game, even if it’s deep ...