Eyles's harrier

Eyles's harrier
Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
Profile of fossillised skull of Eyles' harrier.
Eyles's harrier skull held at Te Papa, Wellington

Extinct (~1400s) (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Circus
Species:
†C. teauteensis
Binomial name
†Circus teauteensis
Forbes, 1892
Synonyms

Circus hamiltoni (nomen nudum)
Circus eylesi (nomen nudum, but see text)

Eyles's harrier (Circus teauteensis) (Māori: Kērangi)[2] is an extinct bird of prey that was endemic to New Zealand.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Circus teauteensis. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Eyles' harrier | Kērangi | New Zealand Birds Online". nzbirdsonline.org.nz. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  3. ^ "Eyles' harrier | New Zealand Birds Online". www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  4. ^ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2007). Extinct birds of new zealand (Reprint ed.). Wellington, New Zealand: Te Papa Press. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8.