Royal Hawk
From Devonshire
The Royal Hawk, Harpyhaliaetus coronatus, resembles a royal flycatcher.
Description
- Height: 6"
- Length: about 7"
- Wingspan: 1'3"
- Call: "key-up"
The Royal Hawk closely resembles a Royal Flycatcher. It is brown above, small buffy spots on its wing-coverts; the rump and tail are tawny-ochraceous in colour. The bill is long and broad, but hooked like a normal diurnal raptor's.
It has an erectile fan-shaped crest, coloured red in the male and yellow-orange in the female. The display with the crest fully raised is seen extremely rarely, except during banding sessions and when the bird is excited, mounting the female or doing mating displays.
Prey
Its normal prey is small mice and other birds. Its prey think nothing about it being a bird of prey, and think it's a flycatcher. Sometimes a royal flycatcher may try to mount a hawk; but the hawk usually ends up eating the flycatcher.
Other hawks use visual clues to tell the difference between hawks. For example, hawks have a black patch on the end of their bills; their bills are also hooked. But flycatchers and other prey fail to see this.
Based on
- I used the body of the Solitary Eagle
- I used the crest of the Royal Flycatcher
