Accipitriformes (Eagles, Hawks, Kites, Secretarybirds, Ospreys, Old World Vultures etc.)
Family: Accipitridae (Eagles, Harriers, Hawks, Kites, Old World Vultures)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Accipiter butleri butleri | Gurney, 1898 | Car Nicobar sparrowhawk, Car Nicobar shikra | 1901 | Car Nicobar (& Katchall?), Nicobar Islands (northern), India | Missing | Access |
Accipiter efficax | Balouet & Olson, 1989 | Powerful goshawk | ? | New Caledonia | Extinct | Access |
Accipiter francesiae pusillus | Gurney, 1875 | Anjouan Island Sparrowhawk, Ndzuwani Goshawk, Joanna Island Goshawk | 1958 | Anjouan, Comoros Islands | Extinct | Access |
Accipiter quartus | Balouet & Olson, 1989 | Gracile goshawk | Holocene | New Caledonia | Extinct | Access |
Accipiter sp. nov. 'New Ireland' #1 | - | - | ? | New Ireland (=Latangai), Papua New Guinea | Extinct | Access |
Accipiter sp. nov. 'New Ireland' #2 | - | - | ? | New Ireland (=Latangai), Papua New Guinea | Extinct | Access |
Accipiter sp. nov. 'Bahamas'
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- | Holocene | Abaco & Middle Caicos, Bahamas | Extinct | Access | |
Aegypius prepyrenaicus | Hernández Carrasquilla, 2001 | Prepyrenees vulture | Late Pleistocene | Spain | Extinct | Access |
Amplibuteo hibbardi | Campbell, 1979 | Hibbard's buteonine hawk | Late Pleistocene | Peru | Extinct | Access |
Amplibuteo woodwardi | Miller, 1911 | Woodward's giant buzzard, Woodward 'eagle' | Late Pleistocene | Cuba & California and Florida, USA | Extinct | Access |
Aquila brachialis | (de Vis, 1889:162) | Late Pleistocene | Queensland, Australia | Invalid (synonym) | Access | |
Aquila chrysaetos simurgh | Weesie, 1988 | Giant Cretan golden eagle | Late Pleistocene | Crete, Greece | Extinct | Access |
Aquila moorei | Haast, 1872 | Haast's eagle, New Zealand eagle | After 1300 AD | New Zealand | Extinct | Access |
Aquila nipaloides |
Louchart, Bedetti & Pavia, 2005 | - | Late Pleistocene | Corsica (France) & Sardinia (Italy) | Extinct | Access |
Aquila sp. nov. 'Madagascar' #1 | - | - | ? | Madagascar | Extinct | Access |
Aquila sp. nov. 'Madagascar' #2 | - | - | ? | Madagascar | Extinct | Access |
Bermuteo avivorus | Olson, 2008 | Bermuda hawk | c.118,000 BC (1603 AD?) | Bermuda | Extinct | Access |
Buteo hoffstetteri | Campbell, 1976 | Late Pleistocene | Ecuador | Extinct | Access | |
Buteo japonicus oshiroi | Kuroda, 1971 | Daito Islands buzzard, Daito buzzard | 1973 | Daito Islands, Japan | Extinct | Access |
Buteo quadratus
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(Wetmore, 1937) | Holocene | Abaco, Little Exuma, Long Island, Middle Caicos & New Providence, Bahamas | Extinct | Access | |
Buteo sanfelipensis
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Suárez, 2020 | San Felipe’s hawk, Gavilán de San Felipe | Late Pleistocene? | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
Buteo sanya | Hou, 1998 | Late Pleistocene | China | Extinct | Access | |
Buteogallus borrasi | Arredondo, 1970 | Giant Cuban hawk, Borrás’s hawk, Gavilán de Borrás | Late Pleistocene? | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus daggetti | Miller, 1915 | Walking eagle | Late Pleistocene | California, USA & Mexico | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus fragilis | Miller, 1911 | Fragile eagle, Águila frágil | Late Pleistocene | California and New Mexico, USA | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus irpus | Suárez & Olson, 2021 | Wolf hawk, Gavilán lobo | Late Pleistocene? | Cuba & Hispaniola | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus milleri | (Howard, 1932) | - | Late Pleistocene | California, USA | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus royi | Suárez, 2020 | Roy's hawk, Gavilán de Roy | Late Pleistocene? | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus terrestris | (Campbell, 1979) | - | Late Pleistocene | South America | Extinct | Access |
Buteogallus sp. nov. 'long-legged hawk/eagle' | - | - | Late Pleistocene | Venezuela | Extinct | Access |
Chondrohierax wilsonii | (Cassin, 1847) | Cuban Kite | - | Cuba | Rediscovered | Access |
Circus alphonsi | (Newton & Gadow, 1893) | - | ? | Mauritius, Mascarene Islands | Invalid? | Access |
Circus dossenus | Olson & James, 1991 | Hawaiian harrier, Mime harrier, Wood harrier | Holocene | Molokai and Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA | Extinct | Access |
Circus eylesi | Scarlett, 1953 | Eyles’ harrier | ? | New Zealand | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Circus hamiltoni | Forbes, 1892 | - | ? | New Zealand | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Circus teauteensis | Forbes, 1892 | Large New Zealand harrier, Forbes' harrier | ? | New Zealand | Extinct | Access |
Cryptogyps lacertosus | (de Vis, 1905) | Late Pleistocene | South Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access | |
Dynatoaetus gaffae |
Mather et al., 2023 | ≥50ka | New South Wales & South Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access | |
Dynatoaetus pachyosteus |
Mather et al., 2023 | - | late Middle Pleistocene (300-150kya) or later | South Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Eutriorchis astur | Sharpe, 1875 | Madagascar serpent-eagle, Madagascar serpent eagle | - | Madagascar | Rediscovered | Access |
Gigantohierax itchei | Suárez, 2020 | Itche’s eagle, Águila de Itche | Late Pleistocene? | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
Gigantohierax suarezi | Arredondo & Arredondo, 2002 | Cuban giant hawk, Suárez’s giant eagle, Águila Gigante de Suárez | Late Pleistocene | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
Gypaetus leucocephalus | Meyer (year?) | - | 1923? | Italy? | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Gyps melitensis | Lydekker, 1890 | "Maltese" vulture | ? | Austria, Corsica, Crete, France, Germany, Hungary, Malta, Sardinia, Sicily and Spain | Extinct | Access |
Haliaeetus australis
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Harrison & Walker, 1973 | Chatham Islands eagle, Chatham Islands fish-eagle | Holocene | Chatham Islands, New Zealand | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Haliaeetus cf. albicilla | - | Hawaiian white-tailed eagle | c.1,300 BC | Maui, Molokai and Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA | Extinct | Access |
Leptodon forbesi | (Swann, 1922) | White-collared kite | - | Pernambuco State, Brazil | Rediscovered | Access |
Milvus milvus fasciicauda | Hartert, 1914 | Cape Verde kite | 1897-1924 | Cape Verde Islands | Extinct | Access |
Necrastur alacer | De Vis, 1892 | Late Pleistocene | Queensland, Australia | Invalid (synonym)? |
Access | |
Neogyps errans | Miller, 1916 | Errant eagle | Late Pleistocene | California, USA | Extinct | Access |
Neophrontops americanus | Miller, 1916 | American neophrontops | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Spizaetus grinnelli | Miller, 1911 | Grinnell’s crested eagle | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct | Access |
Spizaetus pliogryps | Shufeldt, 1891 | - | Late Pleistocene | Oregon, USA | Extinct | Access |
Spizaetus willetti | Howard, 1935 | - | Late Pleistocene | Nevada, USA | Extinct | Access |
Stephanoaetus mahery | Goodman, 1994 | Malagasy crowned eagle, Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle | Holocene | Madagascar | Extinct | Access |
†Titanohierax gloveralleni
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Wetmore, 1937 | Bahaman titan hawk | Late Pleistocene | Little Exuma, Long Island & New Providence, Bahamas, West Indies | Extinct | Access |
†Titanohierax sp. nov. 'Hispaniola' | - | Hispaniolan titan hawk | ? | Haiti, Hispaniola | Extinct | Access |
Trigonoceps sp. nov. 'Flores' | - | Late Pleistocene | Flores, Indonesia | Extinct | Access | |
ACCIPITRIDAE gen. indet. sp. nov. 'Hispaniola' | - | Late Pleistocene? | Hispaniola | Extinct | Access | |
GYPATINAE sp. et. gen. indet. 'Venezuela' | - | Late Pleistocene | Venezuela | Extinct | Access |
Family: [Pandionidae (Ospreys)]
–No subordinate taxa
Family: [Sagittariidae (Secretarybird)]
–No subordinate taxa
Family: †Teratornithidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Cathartornis gracilis | Miller, 1910 | Slender teratorn | Late Pleistocene | California, USA | Extinct | Access |
Oscaravis olsoni | (Arredondo & Arredondo, 2002) | Cuban teratorn, Teratorno Cubano | Late Pleistocene | Cuba | Extinct | Access |
Teratornis incredibilis | Howard, 1952 | Incredible teratorn | Late Pleistocene | USA | Extinct | Access |
Teratornis merriami | Miller, 1909 | Merriam's teratorn | Late Pleistocene | North America | Extinct | Access |
Teratornis woodburnensis | Campbell & Stenger, 2002 | - | Late Pleistocene | Oregon, USA | Extinct | Access |