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After decades gone, South America’s most powerful bird reappears and exposes an alarming collapse in its habitat

The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja), one of the world’s largest and most powerful raptors, has reappeared across parts of its ...
Forbes

Saving The Harpy Eagle: An Interview With Conservationist Ron Magill

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 ...
Mongabay

Harpy eagle confirmed in Mexico for first time in over a decade

Sightings of a young harpy eagle in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle in 2023 have now been verified, marking the first time in more than a decade that one of South America’s largest birds of prey has ...
Mongabay

Goddesses of the wind: How researchers saved Venezuela’s harpy eagles

Venezuelan scientist Eduardo Álvarez Cordero is not only a man who knows harpy eagles: having started one of the biggest and oldest studies about the species, and taken part in the training of many of ...