Little eagle

Weight

633 g – 949 g

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

10.3 years

Diet

Carnivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forest

Egg incubation

36.5 days

Young per litter or clutch

1.83

Litters or clutches a year

1

Lifestyle

Generalist

Migration

Sedentary

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The little eagle is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderAccipitriformes
5. familyAccipitridae
6. genusHieraaetus
7. SpeciesHieraaetus morphnoides (Gould, 1841)

Synonyms Aquila morphnoides, Aquila morphnoides coongani, Aquila morphnoides morphnoides, Hieraaetus morphnoides morphnoides

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Booted eagle

Hieraaetus pennatus

Accipitridae

W

Wahlberg's eagle

Hieraaetus wahlbergi

AccipitridaeNo free photo yet

A

Ayres's eagle

Hieraaetus ayresii

AccipitridaeNo free photo yet

P

Pygmy eagle

Hieraaetus weiskei

AccipitridaeNo free photo yet

CompareLittle eagle vs Booted eagleLittle eagle vs Wahlberg's eagleLittle eagle vs Ayres's eagleLittle eagle vs Pygmy eagle

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@misc{little_eagle_2026,
  title = {Little eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/little-eagle},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}