Interesting Facts About the Philippine Eagle:

The Philippine Eagle is listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It is estimated that there are only 400 pairs left in the wild.

It is one of the rarest eagles in the world, and can only be found in four islands in the Philippines – Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao.

Philippine eagles are solitary and territorial creatures.

It takes five to seven years for Philippine Eagles to mature sexually.

A Philippine eagle pair needs around 4000-11000 hectares of forest land to thrive in the wild, which depends on the prey population of a given area.

They can live up to forty years in captivity, but that number is believed to be likely lower in the wild.

The Philippine Eagle is identified as an opportunist apex predator. This means that it – apart from being an active hunter – can also opt to swoop on injured, sick or dying animals, or consume carcasses that it comes by.

The Philippine Eagle only lays one egg every two years. They typically wait for their offspring to be mature and self-sufficient (which is usually takes two years) before they produce another offspring.

A Philippine Eagle egg is incubated alternately by both eagle parents for 58 to 60 days.

The male eagle does most of the hunting during the first 40 days of an eaglet’s life, while the female stays with the young.

They typically nest on large dipterocarp trees like the Lauan native tree species.

Ornithologist William Robert OgilvieGrant coined the scientific name of the Philippine Eagle in a paper that was published in the 1896 issue of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club.