Malagasy crowned eagle

Malagasy crowned eagle
Temporal range: Holocene
Extinct (1500)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Stephanoaetus
Species:
S. mahery
Binomial name
Stephanoaetus mahery
Goodman, 1994

The Malagasy crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery),[1] also known as the Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle, is an extinct large bird of prey endemic to Madagascar.

It has been proposed that this bird, combined with elephant bird eggs, were the source of sightings of the mythical Roc.[2]

  1. ^ Goodman, Steven M. (1994). "Description of a new species of subfossil eagle from Madagascar: Stephanoaetus (Aves: Falconiformes) from the deposits of Ampasambazimba". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (107): 421–428.
  2. ^ Hume, Julian P.; Walters, Michael (2012). Extinct birds. Vol. 217. A & C Black (Poyser Imprint). pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1.