Woodward's eagle
Extinct species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woodward's eagle (Buteogallus woodwardi) is an extinct species of black hawk that lived in North America and the Caribbean during the Late Pleistocene.[1] Remains have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits in the United States and in Cuba. Despite the common name, the species is technically a gigantic variety of hawk as it is a member of the still extant black hawk genus, Buteogallus, within the Buteoninae subfamily that are chiefly referred to as hawks, and not the Aquilinae subfamily most eagles belong to.
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Woodward's eagle | |
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Skeleton from the La Brea Tar Pits | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Genus: | Buteogallus |
Species: | †B. woodwardi |
Binomial name | |
†Buteogallus woodwardi L. Miller 1911[1] | |
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