Buteogallus daggetti Miller, 1915:180
Walking eagle, Daggett's eagle
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Morphnus daggetti Miller, 1915:180; Wetmoregyps daggetti Miller, 1915:180
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
California, USA & Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, Loye Holmes. (1915). A walking eagle from Rancho La Brea. Condor 17(5): 179-181.
Other references:
Guthrie, D. A. 2009. An updated catalogue of the birds from the Carpinteria Asphalt, Pleistocene of California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 108(2):52-62.
Miller, Loye Holmes. (1925). The birds of Rancho La Brea. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 349: 63-106.
Miller, Loye Holmes. (1928). Generic re-assignment of Morphnus daggetti. Condor 30(4): 255-256.
Miller, Loye Holmes. (1931). Pleistocene birds from the Carpinteria asphalt of California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 20: 361-374.
Olson, Storrs L. (2007). The "walking eagle" Wetmoregyps daggetti Miller: a scaled-up version of the Savanna hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis). Ornithological Monographs, No. 63, pp. 110-114.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Steadman, D. W., and J. I. Mead. 2010. A late Pleistocene bird community at the northern edge of the tropics in Sonora, Mexico. American Midland Naturalist, 163(2):423-441.
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.