Ayres's Hawk-Eagle is a small, stocky eagle with a crest it can raise and lower. It mainly catches birds in flight and hunts over wooded savanna and forest patches in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is a small, stocky eagle with a small crest on the crown that it can raise or lower. Females are generally larger than males.
It mainly hunts small to medium-sized birds, especially pigeons and doves, and also takes mammals such as squirrels, rodents, and bats. Most populations are resident, but some move from denser woodland to tree-dotted savanna during the rainy season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.