Philippine Eagle Foundation has announced that a new baby joy Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga Jeffery) has hatched on 19 January in a breeding program. Dubbed “baby number 24, small bird of prey has hatched after 57 days incubation.

“24″ is already a local celebrity, being put out of the tenth pair consisting of “Jag” and “Ka Brianne, a couple of eagles breeding at a rate greatly appreciated by conservationists.
Weighing just 116.5 grams and having a length of a pencil, “24″ will become mature in one of the largest and most powerful birds of prey in the world. Philippine Eagle can weigh between 6-8 pounds and reaches a length of four feet, its wingspan reaching 2 feet.

This eagle has, in fact, the record for the wider wings throughout the animal kingdom.
“There we realized that 24 is male or female. Philippine Eagle is a monomorphic species, ie, male and female have the same color of the plumage. The only difference is size, females are usually larger and more powerful. 24 has experienced a assisted hatching, we monitored the egg for 55 days and I noticed that the baby does not have enough force to break the single shell covering it, I decided to help him, “says Anna Mae Sumaya, the ornithologist Philippine Eagle Foundation.