This large eagle has a black crest and a chestnut belly marked with black. It lives in humid forests of northwestern South America and takes arboreal mammals and large birds.
Adults have a black crested head and black back and wings. The chest and belly are chestnut with black markings, and females are larger than males.
It uses humid forest and woodland, alone or in pairs. It often soars and feeds on arboreal mammals and large birds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.