Hawk eagle

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(Zool.) an Asiatic bird of the genus Spizætus, or Limnætus, intermediate between the hawks and eagles. There are several species.

See also: Hawk

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The eggs were later found to be five African fish eagles, nine black sparrow hawks, two African hawk eagles and three Cape vultures.
PRIZED BIRD - Philippine Hawk eagles like this one found in Talamban, Cebu City, are among the endangered animals that are sold in the city by illegal wildlife traders.
Army soldiers rescued two rare Philippine hawk eagles in the province of Quezon over the weekend, the military said Wednesday.
When police raided his home they found African hawk eagles, jackal buzzards, goshawks and American kestrels.
Climbers could see a range of different wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, eland, black and white colobus monkeys, augur buzzards, mountain hawk eagles and white-naped ravens.
Similarly, a highly pathogenic avian influenza A H5N1 virus from crested hawk eagles smuggled into Europe by air travel has been isolated and characterized (24); fortunately, however, screening of human and avian contacts indicated that no dissemination had occurred.
The group measured dioxin levels in 12 goshawks, two hawk eagles and one falcon that were found dead or had died after being taken into captivity between 1996 and 1998 in Tokyo, Fukui, Saitama and Tochigi prefectures.
The falcon had 343 picograms of dioxins per gram of body weight, the hawk eagles 168 and 113 picograms and the grown goshawk 134 picograms.
These were six umbrella cockatoos, two Philippine hawk eagles and a serpent eagle.
They included three African hawk eagles, four jackal buzzards and two American kestrels, McDonagh, 27, of Fryer Road, West Heath, could have been jailed for up to seven years after admitting the illegal importation of birds of prey, selling them and two charges of offering birds for sale.
H5N1 type A influenza virus was recently isolated from 2 mountain hawk eagles illegally imported to Belgium from Thailand (18).