Sagip Eagle

THE PHILIPPINE EAGLE:
LARGEST IN THE WORLD

Which is largest, HARPY (left) OR HARIBON (right)?

The raw data below: Based on a very limited available number of specimens and selected external measurements, we have the following:

Total Length (from tip of bill to tip of longest tail feather):
1. Haring Ibon (average) = 1021 mm or 1.021 meter
2. Harpy Eagle (average) = 900.75 mm or 0.90075 meter
3. Golden Eagle (single) = 884 mm
4. Kenyan Eagle (single) = 855 mm
5. American Bald Eagle (single) = 829 mm

Bill Gape
1. Haring Ibon = 73.66 mm
2. American Bald Eagle = 71 mm
3. Harpy Eagle = 64.75 mm
4. Golden Eagle = 60 mm
5. Kenyan Eagle = 55 mm

Bill Culmen
1. Haring Ibon = 72.33 mm
2. Harpy Eagle = 51 mm
3. American Bald Eagle = 50 mm
4. Golden Eagle = 45 mm
5. Kenyan Eagle = 45 mm

Tarsus (Foot length)
1. Haring Ibon = 145 mm
2. Harpy Eagle = 121.25 mm
3. Kenyan Eagle = 115 mm
4. Golden Eagle = 110 mm
5. American Bald Eagle = 95 mm

Wing Chord
(from bend or shoulder to tip of longest primary feather)
1. Golden Eagle = 654 mm
2. Haring Ibon = 608.66 mm
3. American Bald Eagle = 570 mm
4. Kenyan Eagle = 545 mm
5. Harpy Eagle = 544.75 mm

Bill Height
1. Haring Ibon = 50.66 mm
2. Harpy Eagle = 36 mm
3. American Bald Eagle = 33 mm
4. Kenyan Eagle = 33 mm
5. Golden Eagle = 27 mm

Researched by BLAS TABARANZA, JR.
Blas Tabaranza Jr. is Director of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Program of the Haribon Foundation. He is a Professor of Zoology at the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology with extensive field experience in ornithology and mammalogy. He was the first president of the Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines (1993-2000) and a research associate of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.