Accipitridae

Morphnus guianensis
Crested Eagle
Wurgarend (Dutch)

ZMA 13464
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Near-Threatened A large eagle occurring in low densities in mature lowland forest in Central and South America, ranging from Guatemala south to Bolivia and northern Argentina. Gradually declining because of deforestation, while the bird by its size is also a valuable hunting trophy or is killed because it feeds on the same prey as favoured by human subsistence hunters.

Items in the ZMA - 3 birds:
ZMA 3220 [Adult male], no data [before 1880], old former mount.

ZMA 13457 & 13464 Females, juvenile & adult, died 1 & 9 Jan 1940 in the Amsterdam Zoo, skins.

Remarks
ZMA 3220 is a pale morph adult, while ZMA 13464 is in the rare dark taeniatus morph. The latter specimen was sent to Dr Ph. Burton in order to be figured in Ferguson-Lees & Christie (2001), as no bird of this morph was available in The National History Museum in Tring. The birds from 1940 likely origin from Suriname.

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