The Harpy Eagle! 🦅 The Harpy Eagle is one of the largest eagles species in the world - reaching 35 to 41inches in height! (females are larger than males). This great bird is named after the predatory half-woman, half-bird monster, Harpyja, of Greek mythology. The Harpy Eagle exhibits a dark-coloured, hooked beak. This powerdul beak is designed for ripping and tearing apart prey. What does a bird of this extraordinary size eat? - It flies below the forest canopy to grab sloths and monkeys with i

The harpy eagle's talons can be as big as a grizzly bear's claws. | National Geographic

Zoo Miami is celebrating the hatching of a rare harpy eagle for the holiday season. On December 13th, a harpy eagle chick hatched at the harpy eagle enclosure within the Amazon and Beyond exhibit. This is the fifth hatching of this endangered eagle at Zoo Miami which is only the second zoo in all of North America to successfully reproduce this species. Harpy eagles are the most powerful birds of prey in the Western Hemisphere and one of the largest in the world. They are found in large undisturb